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They've had a lot of public controversy and a lot of just drama playing out.

And that is not good for their corporations.

quest to, you know, have a reputation as a company that enterprises and the government can trust.

And so I think that's part of why they bought TVPN.

They said that literally they wanted to help shape the narrative, aka help control the public narrative playing out about AI.

And so, you know, what better way than to hire the people that are being watched three hours every weekday who are talking about it?

Plus TVPN is now going to help, um,

like with OpenAI's comms and marketing in their free time.

So yeah, I mean, it's really an acquirer situation.

Yeah, I think it's really interesting to look at how the general public feels versus how people that are in tech feel.

Because they kind of feel...

They feel different ways, but there is some overlap, but it's for different reasons.

So I remember when I was chatting with a firm that charts like public perception of things in the last couple months, they said that, yeah, the general public really didn't like AI for the most part.

They broke it out by generation, by gender, all sorts of different things.

But for the most part, yeah, like the general public was not a fan.

And they noticed that the more well-known an AI company was,

the worse the public perception of them just because they were more aware that it was an AI company.

So OpenAI had a worse reputation by this firm's standards than Anthropic per se, but as Anthropic's public perception was on the rise, opinion of it was going down.

So that was just interesting.

It's like, if you're known as a household name for being an AI company, the general public right now isn't really a fan, for the majority at least.