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> So many comments here missing the big picture, and just gleefully pointing out that Anthropic got what they deserved, or that this is the natural culmination
by nottorp 4mo ago
> So many comments here missing the big picture, and just gleefully pointing out that Anthropic got what they deserved, or that this is the natural culmination of some kind of marketing stunt.
But it is! How many times have OpenAI and Anthropic threatened the rest of humanity with extinction at the hands of their LLMs? Monthly I think.
They were hoping for a government supported monopoly. Careful what you wish for.
- solenoid0937 4mo agoNo one was calling for a government monopoly, all they called for was a testing process to ensure that frontier LLMs specifically were safe to release into the wild. To the tech-libertarian crowd on HN this is the definition of evil. To everyone else it's responsible behavior and common sense.
- nottorp 4mo ago> No one was calling for a government monopoly, all they called for was a testing process to ensure that frontier LLMs specifically were safe to release into the wild Yes, from chatgpt 0.1 onwards. Everything has been a dangerous frontier model and has threatened humanity with extinction before.
- solenoid0937 4mo agoThe main risks called out with GPT-2 were disinformation and phishing, which did indeed come to pass.
- nottorp 4mo agoAre you sure it matters what this weeks Anthropic and OpenAI threat is?