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What I'm hearing: 1) Security is important. 2) The government should subsidize our infrastructure costs. 3) The government should restrict chip and code depl
by lolinder 2y ago
What I'm hearing:
1) Security is important.
2) The government should subsidize our infrastructure costs.
3) The government should restrict chip and code deployment in other countries to keep AI here.
4) We need to build up a bureaucracy of some kind to regulate this tech.
I'm not at all sure what "democratic AI protocols" is supposed to mean, but the main thrust of this piece isn't substantially different than most of what we've been seeing from Altman in his lobbying efforts. Translated from lobbyist-speak, to me this says "My company is losing its lead and isn't confident we'll be able to keep up going forward. I need you, the governments of the world, to do something about that ASAP. Here are some vaguely national-security-related justifications you can use to sell it to your voters."
- paxys 2y agoI'm sure the piece was being planned for a while, but it's funny that it dropped in the same week as Meta and Mistral releasing fully open source models that outperform OpenAI's own. You want democratic AI? There it is.
- bionhoward 2y agoMistral’s new model is not fully open source because it’s got the same problem as “Open”AI: closed output, the output is not usable for work in any form without technically violating the bullshit customer noncompete policy, and it’s not shareable for the same reason, that would help their competitors learn (gasp)
- benreesman 2y agoIt’s “available weight”. In the context of an ugly power grab by people who do business with the NSA in broad daylight and call it “democratic”? I think it’s pretty clear who is “open” and who is an aspiring fascist.
- tledakis 2y ago2 is probably linked to their expensive infra: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063097
- kjkjadksj 2y agoThere is definitely a defense argument to be made. With enough compute you can use AI to entirely snuff out any signal with noise on any adversaries online resources. It's like having the power to snap your fingers and fire up a billion printing presses right next to where people read it. It's probably one of the most significant advances in propaganda if we are being honest about its capabilities.
- beezlewax 2y agoYou could have done this without ai though right?
- kjkjadksj 2y agoNot at seemingly infinite scale, no. The days of troll farms where a single human operator working in a low wage country is commanding 24 phones and social media accounts at once in a purpose built workstation are probably numbered.