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My favorite provision for covered models is "make sure it can be shut down". Yes, perhaps this could be a concern for future "models", but circa 2024 LLMs do n
by waffletower 2y ago
My favorite provision for covered models is "make sure it can be shut down". Yes, perhaps this could be a concern for future "models", but circa 2024 LLMs do not have agency and are hosted on fairly traditional server farms with obvious power switches. This legislation may have referred to Hollywood films (Kubrick, Cameron, Wachowski et al) more than technological realities. While perhaps extreme shutdown measures might be desired to stop malicious software agents that depend upon inference from a covered model, there are other reasonable security measures available. The legislation seems to fundamentally misunderstand what large language models actually are.
- ctoth 2y agoSo your complaint is that, for the current AI technology, which certainly doesn't cover the entire space of possible AI technology, the provision in the bill is ... easy to follow? It's easy to shut down your inference cluster and this is a problem? What about people who are using language models to build agents? What about when we start adding RL to our language models and training them to act in the real world? Doesn't it make sense to be able to shut this down? Wouldn't it be best to build in the big STOP button first when it is indeed easy?
- waffletower 2y agoNo, my complaint is that it misunderstands where the threat actually resides, for the near foreseeable future. The threat is the traditional black hat bad actor. Poorly written legislation could harm these moat building AI startups too, who have been cynically advocating for such regulation, if their services are wantonly shutdown by law instead of simply employing traditional network security counter-measures. If you read my original reply completely you would have seen my mention of agents.