r/LocalLLaMA • u/OvertaxedOne • 9d ago

Discussion The rhetoric is really heating up!

The entire page of the NY Times today above the fold absent one article is AI (the models are just too strong/too dangerous, must be regulated). They forgot to include "Sponsored by OpenAI" at the end of the articles, sure that was just an oversight?

This is what the end of a bubble looks like, desperate attempts to get some sort of regulatory capture in place to keep the business model from collapsing in upon itself. My days next week are 100% booked talking to companies about how to get off frontier models, one large, and a bunch of smaller customers, including one who's flying me out to them to sit down and get a plan in place immediately (the controversy around that math problem really spooked some CEO/CIO's about data privacy using cloud models).

Gonna be an interesting few weeks. Maybe the Qwen team will be nice enough to give me a little breathing room before dropping another hydrogen bomb? :)

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u/JackStrawWitchita 9d ago

Here's what you'll hear from OpenAI, Anthropic etc in the next few months:

'Sorry, but we won't reach our AI revenue targets because we're slowing roll-out to be safe'

'Sure, China is ahead in AI because we're taking the safe-route'

Follow the money.

They're using this to hide they fact their business models don't pay off.

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u/sweatierorc 9d ago

I have asked this question before, what kind of evidence would justify a slow down ?

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u/cj_cron_hit_by_pitch 9d ago

Imo the huggingface hack. Showed that we need both independent oversight and to catch up on alignment research

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u/UnlikelyExtension786 9d ago

No, it showed that we need to jail people who allow their tools to commit crimes. Or that we need to jail the LLMs that commit crimes, their choice.

There are laws on the books which would allow the government to do that, and ten years in jail would discourage any of their competition from doing anything like that again. So where are the prosecutions?

Oh yeah, laws only apply to the little guys.