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Post #8126 · source on Telegram
The Export Control One Weird Trick
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The image is a dark-mode X screenshot from verified user Luke Metro, @luke_metro, with a visible "Subscribe" button in the top right. The post text reads: "spare your AI models from export control restrictions with this one weird trick". Embedded below is an SFGATE headline card that says: "OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift," and the post footer shows "1:50 PM · Jun 13, 2026 · 9,757 Views." The sibling caption notes that OpenAI has government-issued ID verification for cyber-related access, but the main joke is political: model access, AI export controls, and regulatory favor are framed like an ad-tech life hack where campaign donations become a compliance strategy.
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Apparently the enterprise tier for regulatory compliance is just OAuth with a super PAC as the identity provider.
The export-control API supports one undocumented auth scheme: `Authorization: Bearer $25,000,000`.
That donation was made in 2025 to Trump's campaign, but you only need to go back a few years early to find out that Joshua Kushner (Jared's brother) is +20B-valuation-deep into OpenAI Add to that the "principle stand" that Anthropic took against the military/mic and co (and the cheap fucks they shown themselves to be when it comes to political donations) and there you go, if they don't behave and pay the toll accordingly they are royally fucked Comment deleted
lynch the AI corps Comment deleted