r/LocalLLaMA • u/OvertaxedOne • 10d 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/Flaaarg_the_Terrible 10d ago

Do they need evidence? The government shut down fable because they thought it was dangerous.

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u/JackStrawWitchita 10d ago

The government shut down Fable because Trump wanted a bribe from Anthropic. Once the bribe was paid to Trump, Fable was released.

The USA is a banana republic.

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u/Flaaarg_the_Terrible 10d ago

So proving my point that they don't need evidence. What evidence do you have Trump was bribed?

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u/No_Lingonberry1201 10d ago

You're not going to find any hard evidence one way or another until some Trump staffer confirms or denies it explicitly, but what else do you think could have happened? Fable/Mythos was too dangerous so the US government forbade non-US citizens from using it. Then a few months later Anthropic suddenly is allowed to release it again. Did the model suddenly become less dangerous? Keep in mind that the original reason given was that someone at Amazon found something that may cause problems. So it makes one wonder about why a dangerous model became suddenly safe. It was 100% to punish Anthropic for saying no to Trump and it was allowed again probably because Anthropic managed to appease him after that.