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Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023)

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Re: Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023)

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Paraphrasing him, he says that open source software which tool tens or hundreds of millions to build should be classified as a different category. And the implication being they should be banned. Why?

'These tools will become dangerously powerful, which is why nobody should be allowed to have them except through buying them from specifically me' seems a lot like motivated reasoning to me.

Seems like they haven't learned from the last time they played with fire and got their models restricted to only U.S. citizens for "national security reasons".

Re: Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023)

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They just want US authorities to ban big corporations from using models like GLM etc. so that they can keep selling their overpriced tokens. Funnily enough, a ban like this would close to impossible to enforce on individuals, so I guess their lobbying efforts will soon be met by lobbying efforts from big corporations that are losing from this.

I agree with you and just want to add how crazy it is to hear these statements from CEOs as you get older. They literally, literally just say the thing that will maximize profit for their company. Whether it sounds altruistic or not, it's ALWAYS to increase shareholder value (money for the company).

Re: Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023)

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It’s no different than the “speech is dangerous” safetyism people who push social media moderation, age verification / identity checks, and so on. Ultimately these views that sacrifice rights for safety are from people that don’t really value either.

Re: Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023)

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post #8

They just want US authorities to ban big corporations from using models like GLM etc. so that they can keep selling their overpriced tokens. Funnily enough, a ban like this would close to impossible to enforce on individuals, so I guess their lobbying efforts will soon be met by lobbying efforts from big corporations that are losing from this.

Completely stopping people from using open source models is impossible, but if it became a federal law there could be incredible pressure exerted on US companies. For example, OpenRouter might be compelled to not accept open source requests on threat of fines.

Companies who spend lots of $$$ making a model and then open sourcing it might decide not to if the use of the model were banned in the USA.
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