The arguments against open source AI are bad
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The arguments against open source AI are bad
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Re: The arguments against open source AI are bad
#2I’m still kind of shocked that Dean Ball can tweet such incendiary stuff about OpenAI policy. Like presumably OpenAI would prefer it if their staff don’t pick fights with Trump administration officials.
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#3I’m still kind of shocked that Dean Ball can tweet such incendiary stuff about OpenAI policy. Like presumably OpenAI would prefer it if their staff don’t pick fights with Trump administration officials.
designs on the time scale I guess. and openai might feel secure in their favor with the admin?
Re: The arguments against open source AI are bad
#4The only good arguments I see against open weight AI also apply to closed AI. And regardless, the box is open, nobody can stop it even if stopping it was a good thing.
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#5This post does not mention safety at all. What's to stop bad actors from fine tuning open weights to run fully automated genius-level scams personally targeting basically everybody?
Re: The arguments against open source AI are bad
#6This post does not mention safety at all. What's to stop bad actors from fine tuning open weights to run fully automated genius-level scams personally targeting basically everybody?
What's stopping someone from doing that right now without the LLM, just slightly slower?
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#7This post does not mention safety at all. What's to stop bad actors from fine tuning open weights to run fully automated genius-level scams personally targeting basically everybody?
I don't believe trusting big brother and big tech is the solution either. Besides, even if it's open weight, it still runs on someone else's hardware.
Unless you have the money to run them locally, and if you do, you could do a lot worse than scams. Ask any lobbyist.
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#8You could literally develop a hyper-intelligent advisor on how to kill people or perform dangerous hacks using ablated 'open source' AI. You can do this right now, this very moment, and have an extremely adept advisor on how to do really, really bad things.
Re: The arguments against open source AI are bad
#9The only good arguments I see against open weight AI also apply to closed AI. And regardless, the box is open, nobody can stop it even if stopping it was a good thing.
It could be stopped, if there were a social movement large enough to make AI a taboo.
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#10The lobbying dollars don't care