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

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Post by wqaatwt »

lucasban wrote: post #352
overgard wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, when the leaders of this movement go around doom-trolling for years on end this is what happens. It turns out you need to be careful what you say if you're a highly visible public figure. Amazing! Honestly, with open source models I don't think this regulation means anything because there's no way they can really regulate what's coming out of china. I don't think this affects innovation in AI much at all (unles…

It’s likely that this would slow down the rate of advancement at the Chinese labs as well

Or significantly increase their market share outside the US and give them some breathing space to catch up with the currently available closed models

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Post by john_strinlai »

aristocrazy wrote: post #312

Given how the WH operates these days, this is ripe for corruption. Imagine the WH dislikes the CEO of a biotech company, while appreciating the attitude of a competitor CEO. What is to stop them from stalling on giving acess for the latest model to the company they don't like?

>Imagine the WH dislikes the CEO of a biotech company, while appreciating the attitude of a competitor CEO.

there is no need to imagine, this is what is literally happening

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Post by wqaatwt »

mips_avatar wrote: post #282
razighter777 wrote: post #135

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 is what OpenAI/Anthropic want, it's better marketing than they can pay for -- and it creates a precedent for permanently banning the next generation of open weights models

It’s going to be a bit trickier to do that, even banning US providers from hosting them legally might be tricky to do.

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Post by vorticalbox »

SyneRyder wrote: post #180
pixelpoet wrote: post #133

Are these models still relevant for people outside the US? I get the impression we're stuck on GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 pretty much permanently now, and relying on Chinese models in future.

Not only that, but using Opus 4.8 [1m] right now outside the US, and suddenly I only have a 500k context window. I really hope this is just a strange Claude Code bug, but I had access to a 1 Million window before, and it wouldn't entirely surprise me if context window length becomes another US export restriction. The Anthropic page here seems to say that Max users should have access to the full 1 Million window for 4…

You want to compact early though as sending the whole chat you will end up with a lot of tokens not in the cache which 1. Costs way more and 2. Will slow the request down as it has to process it all.

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Post by mips_avatar »

theptip wrote: post #366
HumblyTossed wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, regulatory capture.

But in this model, there is no regulator, there is just the Whitehouse deciding who gets to use the AI. Nobody has “captured” Trump here.

The problem is they've convinced mainstream people that a model that can find a bug in Microsoft Windows is a bigger problem than Microsoft not caring about fixing it.

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Post by AlecSchueler »

Sol- wrote: post #348
pixelpoet wrote: post #133

Are these models still relevant for people outside the US? I get the impression we're stuck on GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 pretty much permanently now, and relying on Chinese models in future.

If the US really cracks down on frontier model access, you'll see them make Chinese open models illegal. You might say "oh well, let them try", but they will just put direct and secondary sanctions on every company whose systems have used Chinese models in some way. They just have to make an example out of a few international companies and no one will dare to use Chinese frontier models, at least commercially.

This is why we can't decouple ourselves from the US fast enough.

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Post by overgard »

andxor wrote: post #318
minraws wrote: post #315

Well I was expecting it but if it's not going to become available in this subscription cycle for me I will cancel oai subs as I did with claude ones months ago... moving to open weight models is trivial now, with optimizations and stuff glm 5.2 is roughly the same price as the best models around from multiple vendors. unless I could atleast try and see Sol perform like 10x better I don't really have a reason to switc…

> I used Fable for like what 2-3 days at most and didn't really feel it was so much better It was a lot better. I can't believe people say this.

This is the AI booster equivalent of "well it works on my machine." Works better for me != works great for everyone. I'm amazed how much people on HN seem to think that all coding is stupidly simple web apps.

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Post by CMay »

impulser_ wrote: post #197

Again, if you think we the people are getting access to AGI you're a fool. These models aren't even that smart and they are already trying to control them and lock them down to a handful of people. Then these executive and VC wonder why people hate AI and are against them. Because the future is heading toward intelligence for the rich and you stuck with whatever model they want you to have. The next step is banning o…

It's different, because most books don't contain the nuclear codes or have real impacts on national security.

The way I see so many comments on the internet hating any sort of AI regulation, is young juveniles cursing at the installation of stoplights as they rev their engines. The world is bigger than just you, and not only you matter. Reasons exist for doing things.

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