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U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

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> We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default. It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.

I'm very glad to see them say this explicitly and prominently.

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While laughing at the stereotype of French being on the street all the time

I do respect the French. They've proven, time and time again, that if you fuck with the people, heads will roll...

Meanwhile, I draw a three day suspension every time I post the word "guillotine" on Reddit.

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I hope this doesn't become the new norm where government becomes the bottleneck for innovation in the AI space. It's worrying that with no formal and transparent policy framework that the government will be picking winners and losers and stifling innovation. There's been no public policy, executive order, legislation, or otherwise on this, I wonder if anyone has filed FOIA requests for these decisions or the conversa…

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What a terrible take

First of all, who said this is a disaster?

Second of all, OP never even said anything about no regulation - they specifically said they wanted transparency which is 100% valid and better than a world where the government baby proofs everything for you

Models are already censored - and who they are or aren't uncensored for has a lot of implications which are way worse

And the jets is a terrible example - you picked one of THE highest regulated industries where NOBODY has a problem with regulation

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really interesting that someone can know all of these domestic Chinese names and yet declare the industry generally a "smoking ruin". Is it from a newsletter or something? Because anyone who used these companies' products in China would see a pretty large ecosystem that's making a lot of money.

> It's really interesting that someone can know all of these domestic Chinese names and yet declare the industry generally a "smoking ruin". They're different things. Just like you can be the most famous actor or singer and still be poor. Being popular, having good products and actually making money is not the same. And it's all relative. Today if NASDAQ dropped 20% the world would declare it in ruins. Are the compan…

To pick one example, OP talked about meituan like they haven't seen multiple meituan delivery riders per block every time they take a walk. It strains credibility. Why do they even know the name if they don't see that? Its not like they operate in America.

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"We believe in broad access, and we plan to make GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. As part of our ongoing engagement with the U.S. government, we previewed our plans and the models’ capabilities ahead of today’s launch. At their request, we are starting with a limited preview for a small group of trusted partners whose participation has been shared with the government, before relea…

Do you feel the same way about FDA approvals?

I mean, it seems like common sense - a limited beta test before widespread rollout. I'm not convinced they'll ever come up with a good framework for dealing with the cyber & bio issues, but getting triggered by a beta test rollout seems overboard.

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#156

"We believe in broad access, and we plan to make GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. As part of our ongoing engagement with the U.S. government, we previewed our plans and the models’ capabilities ahead of today’s launch. At their request, we are starting with a limited preview for a small group of trusted partners whose participation has been shared with the government, before relea…

> This amount of courting the current administration is pretty scary imo.

That’s ironic – I interpreted that paragraph with the opposite slant: positively. If that’s what the government mandates then these companies, in the end, have little choice, so was at least relieved to see them publicly pushing back.

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"We believe in broad access, and we plan to make GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. As part of our ongoing engagement with the U.S. government, we previewed our plans and the models’ capabilities ahead of today’s launch. At their request, we are starting with a limited preview for a small group of trusted partners whose participation has been shared with the government, before relea…

NYT's The Daily covered this a few days ago. Has a few interesting details about what went on...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/podcasts/the-daily/trump-...

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#158

I hope this doesn't become the new norm where government becomes the bottleneck for innovation in the AI space. It's worrying that with no formal and transparent policy framework that the government will be picking winners and losers and stifling innovation. There's been no public policy, executive order, legislation, or otherwise on this, I wonder if anyone has filed FOIA requests for these decisions or the conversa…

Not a fan of the phased release but I do remember when access to gpt-3 was gated and access to gpt-4 had a staged release.

ppl are acting like limited release is unprecedented when, in fact, has been the norm until a few years ago.

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I hope this doesn't become the new norm where government becomes the bottleneck for innovation in the AI space. It's worrying that with no formal and transparent policy framework that the government will be picking winners and losers and stifling innovation. There's been no public policy, executive order, legislation, or otherwise on this, I wonder if anyone has filed FOIA requests for these decisions or the conversa…

This move was obvious the moment Anthropic pleaded to the government to regulate them.

As predicted, [0] it has now been applied to OpenAI and soon anyone else releasing highly capable models.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511849

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I hope this doesn't become the new norm where government becomes the bottleneck for innovation in the AI space. It's worrying that with no formal and transparent policy framework that the government will be picking winners and losers and stifling innovation. There's been no public policy, executive order, legislation, or otherwise on this, I wonder if anyone has filed FOIA requests for these decisions or the conversa…

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> We don't let passengers fly on unvetted jumbo jets either and we prevent them from flying when they have problems.

This is Mr. Fart's Favorite Colors all over again. Our "vetting" process is not any more useful than the billion-dollar metal detector you can skip with a TSA Precheck. It arguably does not deter the most dangerous attacks even slightly. What happens when a mentally-ill pilot locks their copilot out of the cockpit? Well, we write off a crowd of passengers and then "vet" the next jet as a safe vehicle.

AI will be the same way. These "safety" measures are performative and do not even slightly address the actual threat surface of the technology. Arguably, it cannot even be done.

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