Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then the government should takeover OpenAI
Or end capitalism! One or the other!
Governments taking over key industries is part of capitalism.
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#562Regulatory capture in progress. I used to have a bit of respect of Altman have spent time, bits and processing cycles here defending him in the past. As of now that respect has all but evaporated, this is a very bad stance. Either nobody gets to play with the new toys or everybody gets to play. What's next, classifying AI as munitions?
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#563Is this just to put up a barrier to entry to new entrants in the market so they can have a government enforced monopoly?
It's also to prevent open source research from destroying his business model, which depends on him having a completely proprietary technology.
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Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#565We need to MAKE SURE that AI as a technology ISN'T controlled by a small number of powerful corporations with connections to governments. To expound, this just seems like a power grab to me, to "lock in" the lead and keep AI controlled by a small number of corporations that can afford to license and operate the technologies. Obviously, this will create a critical nexus of control for a small number of well connected…
> open source "core inspectable" AIs that millions of people can examine and tear apart, including and ESPECIALLY the training data and processes that create them.
True open source AI also strikes me as prerequisite for fair use of original works in training data. I hope Congress asks ClosedAI to explain what’s up with all that profiting off copyrighted material first before even considering the answer.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#566I 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 fo…
That got a little dark at the end. Surely some other remedies short of cannibalism would suffice.
It’s a figure of speech.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#567My gut feeling is that the majority of AI safety discussions are driven by companies that fear losing their competitive edge to small businesses. Until now, it's been challenging to grow a company beyond a certain size without employing an army of lawyers, human resources professionals, IT specialists, etc. What if two lawyers and an LLM could perform the same work as a legal department at a Fortune 500 company? The…
Large corporations have not been able to do anything about filesharing technologies like bittorrent.
This entire legal argument is almost beside-the-point because development on open source models can continue on onion sites too.
It will only affect commercial operations, and they won't be able to release a fine tuned model on a banned LLM even if they do have a pre-ban copy saved.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#568I 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 fo…
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Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#569Smart.
An AI license and complicated regulatory framework is their chance to build a moat.
Only large companies will be able to afford the pay to play.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#570Who watches the watchers? Does anyone truly believe the US and it’s agencies could responsibly “regulate” AI for the greater good?
Or would democratizing and going full steam ahead with open source alternatives be better for the greater good.
With the corporate influence over our current government regulatory agencies my personal view is open source alternatives are societies best bet!