Open AI lobbying for regulation on common people being able to use AI, isn't it wonderful.
They acknowledged there’s no technical moat, so it’s time to lobby for a regulatory one.
Predictable. Disappointing, but predictable.
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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#482Other sources mention more clearly that a proposal is made for an entity that would "provide (and revoke) licences to create AI".
Can this be seen as curbing Open Source AI as a consequence?
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#483I did not expect this. Does Sam have any plans on what this could look like?
Sam is a crook
Essentially. He is marching on these bad scifi scenarios because he knows politicians are old and senile while a good portion of voters is gullible. I find it difficult to believe that grown ups are talking about an ai running amok in the context of a chatbot. Have we really become that dense as a society?
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#484I just want to also chime in here and say this is what I expected from the folks who currently control this tech: to leverage political connections to legally cement themselves in the market as the leaders and disallow the common plebian from using the world-changing tech. It enrages me SO MUCH that people act like this. We could be colonizing planets, but instead a few people want to keep all the wealth and power for themselves. I can't wait to eat the rich; my fork will be ready.
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#485I hate I hate I HATE regulatory capture.
This is a transparent attempt at cornering the market and it disgusts me. I am EXTREMELY disappointed in Sam Altman.
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#486Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#487This is an AP news wire article picked up by a Qatar newspaper website. Why is this version here, rather than https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-openai-ceo-sam-altman-con... ?
AP news wires are «picked up» by a large number of local (re)publishers and many just do not know that AP is the original source.
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#488Whenever rich people with a stake in something propose regulation for it, it is probably better that it be banned.
I say this because the practice has a number of names: intellectual monopoly capitalism, and regulatory capture. There are less polite names, too, naturally.
To understand why I say this, it is important to realise one thing: these people have already successfully invested in something when the risk was lower. They want to increase the risks to newcomers, to advantage themselves as incumbents. In that way, they can subordinate smaller companies who would otherwise have competed with them by trapping them under their license umbrella.
This happens a lot with pharmaceuticals: it is not expertise in the creation of new drugs or the running of clinical trials that defines the big pharmaceuticals companies, it is their access to enormous amounts of capital. This allows them to coordinate a network of companies who often do the real, innovative work, while ensuring that they can reap the rewards - namely, patents and the associated drug licenses.
The main difference of course is that pharmaceuticals are useful. That regime is inadequate, but it is at least not a negative to all of society. So far as I can see, AI will benefit nobody but its owners.
Mind you, I'd love to be wrong.
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#489This is the message I shared with my senator (edited to remove information which could identify me). I hope others will send similar messages. Dear Senator [X], I am an engineer working for [major employer in the state]. I am extremely concerned about the message that Sam Altman is sharing with the Judiciary committee today. Altman wants to create regulatory roadblocks to developing AI. My company produces AI-enabled…
The worries about AI taking over things are founded and important, even if many sci-go depictions of it are inaccurate. I’m not sure if this would be the best solution but please don’t dismiss the issue entirely
*sci-fi but I can’t edit it now
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#490I don’t understand the need to control AI tech, no matter how advanced, in any way what-so-ever. It is a tool. If I use a tool for illegal purposes I have broken the law. I can be held accountable for having broken the law. If the laws are deficient, make the laws stronger and punish people for wrong deed, regardless of the tool at hand. This is a naked attempt to build a regulatory moat while capitalizing on fear of…
The below is not an endorsement of any particular regulation. It is a tool which allows any individual to have nearly instant access not only to all the world's public data, but the ability to correlate and research that data to synthesize new information quickly. Without guardrails, someone can have a completely amoral LLM that has the ability to write persuasive manifestos on any kind of extremist movement that pri…
If LLMs/AI are the problem, they're also the solution. Access restrictions will do nothing but centralize control over one of the most important developments of the century.
What if we required licenses to create a website? After all, some unscrupulous individuals create websites that sell drugs and other illicit things!