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You will never convince me that these "our AI hacks people on its own, they're so dangerous in the wrong hands" press releases from the big AI companies are not
by ang_cire 1mo ago
You will never convince me that these "our AI hacks people on its own, they're so dangerous in the wrong hands" press releases from the big AI companies are not them trying to create a government enforced moat by framing it as too dangerous for LLMs to be allowed to be personally run, general use tools (especially open source ones).
I will bet money that they want them treated as advanced weapons, because export controls, restrictions, and regulatory burdens they can afford to meet give them a nice wide moat.
- prettyblocks 1mo agoHow can this ever be enforced?
- cube00 1mo agoSame way it got enforced during the Crypto Wars [1] of the 90s by the US and their allies. Up until 1996 commercial encryption was on the Munition List. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
- ang_cire 1mo agoThis is already common. Go try to export firmware for a fighter jet. Any software that the US govt designates as a military or weapon system is just as regulated as the fighter jet itself. And as the poster below pointed out, they have previously used this to lock down otherwise civilian software like encryption, by deciding that it falls under weapon regulations.