To me the signators (is that the word?) of the letter are extremely naive. The horse is out of the barn. Out of the farm, the county, and the state. Yesterday

To me the signators (is that the word?) of the letter are extremely naive. The horse is out of the barn. Out of the farm, the county, and the state. Yesterday Bloomberg released their own LLM. You can bet dollars to pennies that lots of other firms are working on their own LLM's. Are they going to stop because of a letter? Well, you can say, they will stop if the letter results in an act of Congress. First, the Congress will not be so silly as to impose a handicap on the US firms, knowing full well that Russian and Chinese firms will not respect the moratorium. But even if Congress were to consider this moratorium, you think all these firms furiously working on their proprietary LLM's will sit idle? That none of them ever heard the word "lobbying"? But even if they don't lobby by some miracle, and the law is passed, you think they will not find a loophole? For example, will Congress not allow for a Defense exemption? Can't you then train your LLM for some Defense purpose, and then use the weights for some other purposes? If you pass a law to stop LLM's, the only thing you achieve is to increase the barriers of entry. It's like picking winners and losers using the criterion that you win if you are rich and lose if you are poor.