U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by credit_guy » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 12:51 PM UTC

bitexploder wrote: post #757

credit_guy wrote: post #753

Here's an unpopular opinion: this might be the only way to deploy advanced models. A lot of people compare advanced AI with nuclear weapons. Creating white lists of users that are allowed to use advanced AI feels wrong. It feels against everything that the Constitution stands for. That men are created equal and they are free to pursue their happiness. Now they are free to pursue that happiness only if the US Governme…

They can only slow down open models and open weight models from getting as good as Mythos/Fable and GPT 5.6. Then what? They will all get distilled, down trained, and the smaller models will get better too.

I don't think open weight model will get as good as Mythos/Fable or GPT 5.6. Not in the next few years, and perhaps never.

The Chinese Communist Party is not any happier than the US Government to see millions/billions of people being able to use incredibly dangerous models.

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

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Post by gwerbin » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 12:52 PM UTC

sooheon wrote: post #854

gwerbin wrote: post #828

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That's often how regulatory capture works. It seems bad for the incumbents, but it's worse for any future competitor. As long as the cost of complying with the regulation is less than your expected loss from competition entering the market, then it's net positive for the incumbent.

I think this is plain old regulation, not regulatory capture. For it to be the latter we'd need evidence than it was the incumbents who designed this oversight which they then asked the white house to rubber stamp.

...I think we have plenty of evidence of that

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

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Post by torpfactory » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 1:05 PM UTC

On top of the obvious grift and bribe seeking potential there is also now an obvious mechanism for ideological control. Govt doesn’t like the way the model describes the events of Jan 6? We’ll have to see how many people get to use it…

We are very clearly proceeding down the road to a dystopia here.

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

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Post by m3kw9 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

Just don't say shit like it's gonna overtake the gov't systems and world, Dario.

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

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Post by m3kw9 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC

It will only be a couple weeks relax. 5.5 works perfectly fine for most tasks.

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

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Post by motbus3 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 1:27 PM UTC

This will limit a lot how much they can invest in a model. Because of it is better than the current it will have less and less users until only the government can use it.

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

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Post by microgpt » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 1:29 PM UTC

estearum wrote: post #934

microgpt wrote: post #699

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The US government isn't claiming that — it is telling you that fact.

No, not really. They'll lose in court if anyone pushes back.

They'll do it anyway. How many of Trump's court losses has he obeyed?

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Post by postepowanieadm » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 1:33 PM UTC

rzerowan wrote: post #666

jmward01 wrote: post #604

This is regulatory capture in action. This will make it hard/impossible for new vendors to come into the market and only established companies will get to play, and charge, for LLMs. What does this mean for open source? Will it become illegal to download weights? What about train your own? Are we heading to a world where GPU use is regulated to ensure that illegal LLMs aren't being processed on your machine? More bro…

As far as Europe is concerned they have recently signed up to the 'Pax Silica'[1] and willingly givrn the LLM space over to the US incumbents with buildtin legislation banning Chinese models and coperation with them. So EU will be a renter of the LLMs that the US allows them to use. In the long run OpenSource will dominate as it did in the DB(MySQL/Postgres)/ServerOS(Linux/BSDs) versus Proprietery rent seeking alts l…

Germany and Netherlands signed alone, not as EU block.

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Post by emptysongglass » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 1:41 PM UTC

bluecalm wrote: post #925

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #814

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This is beyond ridiculous. At the same historical turning point when Europeans are finally waking up to the need to become less dependent on their so called US ally for weapons production and security, they are immediately choosing to become dependent on the next layer of critical infrastructure. Instead of learning the obvious lesson, Europe seems ready to purchase the future from whoever Washington allows it to pur…

EU is very lucky USA still has very strict immigration policy. If USA made it easy for highly skilled professionals to emigrate there then there would be almost no one capable left here.

EU countries are in many cases far stricter.

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Post by hsuduebc2 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 1:45 PM UTC

bluecalm wrote: post #925

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #814

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is beyond ridiculous. At the same historical turning point when Europeans are finally waking up to the need to become less dependent on their so called US ally for weapons production and security, they are immediately choosing to become dependent on the next layer of critical infrastructure. Instead of learning the obvious lesson, Europe seems ready to purchase the future from whoever Washington allows it to pur…

EU is very lucky USA still has very strict immigration policy. If USA made it easy for highly skilled professionals to emigrate there then there would be almost no one capable left here.

I honestly think this is not true.