> I keep seeing this assertion. What regulations have they proposed that would have prevented this new model?

> Literally zero, but that never stopped a good conspiracy theory

Are you living under a rock and never read any of Dario's blog posts?

Let me give you an example, here: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

Section "1. *Regulation* and public safety" (emphasis mine), then under it:

> AI companies that develop advanced AI models must have strong security standards that protect their model weights

You can't "protect model weights" if the weights are openly available, ergo this is an explicit call for regulation to make open weights illegal.