Why Hasn't the Left Declared War on AI?
Posted By: FlyRight, 2/17/2026 4:33:47 AM
last wrote about AI at AT in mid December 2025, about how AI lets everyone in on “common knowledge” without the annoyance of “experts” controlling the distribution of knowledge. But today December seems like an age ago. That’s because people are now reacting to the latest AI models at OpenAI and Anthropic and declaring that there has been a radical change. Matt Shumer has been following AI all along: Then, on February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic (the makers of Claude, one of the main competitors to ChatGPT).
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Why Hasn't the Left Declared War on AI?
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last wrote about AI at AT in mid December 2025, about how AI lets everyone in on “common knowledge” without the annoyance of “experts” controlling the distribution of knowledge. But today December seems like an age ago. That’s because people are now reacting to the latest AI models at OpenAI and Anthropic and declaring that there has been a radical change. Matt Shumer has been following AI all along:
Then, on February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic (the makers of Claude, one of the main competitors to ChatGPT).
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