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OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

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Re: OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

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>Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s vice president of global affairs, said in an interview that the US AI Safety Institute – a key government group focused on AI – could act as the main point of contact between the federal government and the private sector. If companies work with the group voluntarily to review models, the government could provide them “with liability protections including preemption from state based regulations…

Wouldn't be shocking if that were the case. Big companies often play both sides

Re: OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

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Before Deepseek, Meta open-sourced a good LLM. At the time, the narrative pushed by OpenAI and Anthropic was centered on 'safety.' Now, with the emergence of Deepseek, OpenAI and Anthropic have pivoted to a national security narrative. It is becoming tiresome to watch these rent seekers attacking open source to justify their valuations.

Now that Deepseek is in the mix, it's suddenly about national security. Convenient.

Re: OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

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A slippery slope to eliminate copyright out right. The argument made is that AI is somehow more special and will otherwise lose to competition with China.

The flaw there is that AI is not more special than any other endeavor while all other American markets must equally compete with China.

What that failure means is that when anything is exceptional then everything becomes exceptional because the economic conditions apply equally and therefore bypassing copyright protections applies equally to anybody facing external competition.

Re: OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

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Still not convinced how a model training on data, is not the same as a human looking at that data and then using it indirectly as it’s now a part of his knowledge base

The scale is different.

Should the rules for owning a gun which can fire 1 round per hour be the same as a gun which can fire 1 million rounds per hour?

Re: OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

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I just wish they understood they are limited not by the content available, but by the intrinsic characteristics of the architecture and algorithms of LLMs. It's just not the AGI that will magically open it's eyes one day.The sooner we stop burning billions of dollars on it, the better.

Re: OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

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A slippery slope to eliminate copyright out right. The argument made is that AI is somehow more special and will otherwise lose to competition with China. The flaw there is that AI is not more special than any other endeavor while all other American markets must equally compete with China. What that failure means is that when anything is exceptional then everything becomes exceptional because the economic conditions…

All of this, plus it's not even AI in the generic sense, it's just very advanced text generation, or a certain application of AI. So the chinese Gemini will offer to summarise e-mails at lower cost, who cares?
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