I wouldn't call it "half-baked" when it's a well known playbook regularly leveraged by large companies.

> At best you'll get legal restrictions for particular US industries which are especially risk-aware. The CEOs of those industries will counter-lobby to be able to use whatever model they want.

Companies won't spend the money and time to lobby to use different models and Anthropic knows it.

> Since there's plenty of public attention on this issue, achieving meaningful regulatory capture will be difficult.

I don't have high hopes. This is also why Anthropic is pushing the "regulate or ai will kill you" angle.