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

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Post by sscaryterry »

re-thc wrote: post #128
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #34

Remember how China turned its tech industry into a smoking ruin - make making them all submit to political priorities: Ant Group: China halted Ant’s IPO and forced a restructuring Alibaba: China fined and politically disciplined Alibaba Didi: China punished Didi after its US listing by removing its apps, freezing users, forcing delisting Tutoring platforms: banned profit from core school-subject tutoring. Tencent gam…

> defence - why would anyone buy US weapons after Greenland and Canada It's the ONLY one (almost) that are actively tested and verified in real battles.

I guess by ensuring there are wars to test them with.

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Post by ascorbic »

tiahura wrote: post #155
Fraterkes wrote: post #132

"We believe in broad access, and we plan to make GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. As part of our ongoing engagement with the U.S. government, we previewed our plans and the models’ capabilities ahead of today’s launch. At their request, we are starting with a limited preview for a small group of trusted partners whose participation has been shared with the government, before relea…

Do you feel the same way about FDA approvals? I mean, it seems like common sense - a limited beta test before widespread rollout. I'm not convinced they'll ever come up with a good framework for dealing with the cyber & bio issues, but getting triggered by a beta test rollout seems overboard.

The FDA has incredibly detailed guidelines that need to be followed, and a clear process to be followed. This is none of that.

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Post by bumby »

nekusar wrote: post #240
book_mike wrote: post #234

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This has ALWAYS been capitalism. Just now, we're seeing what capitalist policies do to another nation, and that nation is us.

Eh, this isn’t new to the US either. You can’t, for example, buy a nuclear weapon on the open market because we recognize the broader societal risk.

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Post by A_D_E_P_T »

> Only companies approved by the government will get access. There is no process for individual users to get access to the new model.

I knew the time would come when individuals on personal subscriptions get the short end of the stick. Didn't think it would come so soon. I hope we're not too badly deprecated in the months to come.

Looks like I've got to improve my DeepSeek workflows.

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Post by Forgeties79 »

bumby wrote: post #245
nekusar wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has ALWAYS been capitalism. Just now, we're seeing what capitalist policies do to another nation, and that nation is us.

Eh, this isn’t new to the US either. You can’t, for example, buy a nuclear weapon on the open market because we recognize the broader societal risk.

I have a feeling the latest incremental release of ChatGPT is maybe less threatening to the survival of all living species than a nuclear weapon, but I’m no expert so could be wrong.

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Post by andy99 »

In the early days of the LLM era, there was lots of talk about how big incumbents, in particular google would be disadvantaged relative to “startups” like OpenAI because of their valuable legacy businesses that could be destroyed if something went wrong. Mainly people thought about big lawsuits but government action is similar.

Now OpenAI and Anthropic are big incumbents with Trillion dollar valuations at stake, so they can’t take any risks. Unlike google they don’t really have a thriving primary business to protect though, so without being able to continue to take risks and ignore regulation startup-style, it’s going to be a lot harder for them to stay relevant.

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Post by akmarinov »

platinumrad wrote: post #238

I can't tell if this is bad for the big labs, or good because it means they now have an excuse for not showing meaningful progress in the lead ups to their IPOs.

What would that IPO look like when they can’t sell their product to users and are hard capped on how much money they can earn?

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Post by cbg0 »

platinumrad wrote: post #238

I can't tell if this is bad for the big labs, or good because it means they now have an excuse for not showing meaningful progress in the lead ups to their IPOs.

It will reduce usage and spur investments into competitors from the EU and likely other large nations, most likely hurting these upcoming IPOs.
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