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

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

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Post by 15155 »

OkWing99 wrote: post #14

Why do I get the feeling the administration is doing this to buy a position in the AI companies before they go public. If non US citizens shouldn't have the models - wouldn't that cause both Anthropic and OAI to fire non-citizens?

> wouldn't that cause both Anthropic and OAI to fire non-citizens?

They would do what the thousands of other companies do with their tens of thousands of engineers handling ITAR/EAR-regulated software/hardware every day: compartmentalize their workforces, buildings, and access.

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Post by Argonaut998 »

small_model wrote: post #11
digitaltrees wrote: post #2

Open source is looking great right now

It's the year of the open source AI model is the new 'It's the year of the Linux Desktop'. It's not and never will be for 90% of people

That’s not true at all. While not as good as proprietary models they are still very good and can do A LOT, certainly more than their cost would make it seem.

It’s only a matter of time before companies start to acknowledge the huge cost of tokens and look for a cheaper alternative with basic cost-benefit analysis.

My F500 company is getting local infrastructure going to host open models and I’m sure many will just switch to bedrock + the best open models.

It’s foolish for companies to let three companies dictate the price of tokens, I just don’t think they are aware of this now by and large.

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Post by iammrpayments »

selcuka wrote: post #10
vkaku wrote: post #5

Keep your **** models to yourselves.... the world really has moved on to open models which can give you good enough results at a fraction of the cost and zero BS licensing.

> the world really has moved on to open models Don't get me wrong: I'm all for open models, but I think it will get more and more difficult to distil-train them without (legitimate) access to frontier models.

I’m not sure, because the same thing happened with facebook advertising restrictions during the 2018 elections and nowadays there’s a whole black market for fake ad accounts.

If anything I bet these people will just use their knowledge to make even more money reselling tokens.

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Post by quantumwoke »

15155 wrote: post #20
quantumwoke wrote: post #6

This is for the preview period, but it's not a good sign. Opus 4.8 may be the last frontier model available to the masses...

Thousands of American engineers all over the country (most of whom probably aren't on Hacker News) work with ITAR/EAR-regulated software and hardware every single day: these regulations are really not difficult to abide if you're a citizen.

And what about the rest of the world? I can't imagine US partners will abide this for long.

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

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Post by bilekas »

Wow.. Okay so it's official now that the playbook is "we will try to prevent anyone who we don't like to use advanced tech".

I understand if its military hardware and software, that's the property of the US government however this is the property of a private company.. Now seemingly being commandeered and issued at the will of the government, sounds very Russian/Chinese to me.

Is there a precedent for this before in a democratic country ?

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