Michael Burry, the investor portrayed in the film The Big Short, sharply criticized statements by the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic calling for slower AI research. He gave four reasons: large language models are not genuine AI, the proposals protect incumbent interests, they create publicity and hype around potential IPOs, and they conceal weakening growth. Burry said the calls to slow development were intended to mask a situation in which the industry’s growth slowdown had become difficult to control and listing plans had been delayed, Business Insider reported.