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- I don't think open-weight models are what motivated these specific comments. It's a way of deflecting OpenAI's failure with HuggingFace/etc as a natural consequence of powerful AI instead of a specific problem with OpenAI's recklessness.by Diogenesian
- In the words of the meme, "why not both?"by jrm4
- How can it be about anything other than China / open weights ? If OpenAI wanted to slow down their own research and/or releases they could do that without the government telling them to do that.
If Anthropic and OpenAI both genuinely want deceleration, then just make a joint agreement to pause releases and stop trying to front-run the race.
You can't simultaneously claim China is only somewhat keeping up by "distilling" your models, and not acknowledge that therefore it's your models, not China's, that is dangerously accelerating frontier capabilities.
US AI companies "help, we're destroying society - please stop us".
- ... and guarantee the bogeyman is going to kick our puppies, or whatever? Hah!
- That can’t be good.by Havoc
- Ah - the "pull the ladder up after you" strategy.by jjkaczor
- by SockThief
- Not sure how much I trust AI labs to do the right thing.by abhishekdev
- Oh, I'm 100% about how much I trust AI labs to do the right thing, which is never.by jrm4
- Absolutely not. But I think it’s fair to assume they want themselves and their loved ones to survive.by mithilasadu
- You can trust Sam Altman 110% to do the right thing for his own money and power.by ahartmetz
- This is the guy, if I'm not mistaken, who was fired for telling different groups people different and contradictory lies depending on what he needed them to believe. And now he's telling a reporter about what he's been telling the whitehouse, so he could be lying to the reporter, lying to the whitehouse or lying to both.by ptx
- “Oh no AI is totally getting too powerful! White House must intervene!
…pls invest more money”
by wao0uuno - pls..? more like `if you don't we'll all die, so do it`by _davide_
- You'd think one of the first things the AI would do once it truly gets that powerful is make a lot more money for its owner.by reverius42
- Losing the race? Get your political buddies to help “level” the playing field!by e40
- free market ;)by one33seven
- I'm sensing a pattern here. Weren't foreign made grid tied inverters just banned?by thijson
- Nah, he's talking about accelerating his net worth, it just happens to be that right now slowing AI might do that. Especially if it affects his competition.by eqvinox
- Maybe this is part of some complicated plan to increase his net worth or maybe he's worried that the AI juggernaut will get him killed (along with everyone else) if it keeps going the way it has been. I know I'm worried.by hollerith
- I doubt he plans to convince Xi Jinping to decelerate too, so really this is talking to the Whitehouse about banning Chinese models.by xscott
- AI is the only thing America has left China is still making stuff.by TitaRusell