They're trying to charge me an absurd amount for publication. After talking with someone who's still in the industry, I found out about a series of emails. Turns out nobody else was told they had to pay for publishing...

People at these companies are trying to put hurdles in front of my paper because of what it does to the AI industry. I didn't realise just how corrupt the space actually was -- Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, OpenAI, Microsoft, and more -- they have a coalition to suppress papers like this one, regardless of their competition. They all want to milk the cash-cow, and will fight each other to do it; but if the cash-cow dies, then they'd all be sad

♥♥♥♥ the monopolies, ♥♥♥♥ the oligarchy

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15833967