The Gotcha Wiki
Historical documentation, comedic edition: how big tech and its regulators actually behave, told from the documents already published on this site. More comedy than forensics, but every fact links to its source.
Satire & commentary. Lines marked Source summarize the linked documents published on this site (AI-assisted research reports by Albert Lane; check their cited references before relying on them). Lines marked Gotcha are opinion and satire, not statements of fact. No private individuals; no invented quotes. Corrections: lane.albert@pm.me.
Entries
The Non-Profit That Learned to CountOpenAI governance and safety — How a charity built to benefit all of humanity became a public benefit corporation, and what the safety brake says when someone else drives faster.Gatekeepers vs. the GateEU Digital Markets Act enforcement — Europe stopped asking “did you hurt anyone?” and started asking “did you follow the rules?” The gatekeepers’ answers were creative.Fair Use, Unfair LibraryFrontier AI training-data provenance — The robot may read the book. The robot may not keep a pirated library of half a million of them. The difference was about $1.5 billion.
House rules
- Facts come only from documents published on albertlane.net or from public records, and each one cites its source.
- Jokes are labeled as opinion. Companies and public institutions are fair game; private individuals are not.
- No invented quotes, no made-up numbers, nothing about anyone’s private life.
- New entries are added as Albert publishes new documents to Research.