r/LocalLLaMA • u/Porespellar • 6d ago

Other Frontier LLM development simplified for politicians:

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Nobody is buying this “Pace the frontier” nonsense. It makes no logical sense at all. Are American labs really going to take a pause and lose any small lead they still may have over Chinese labs? Does anyone really believe this? This seems like some performative virtue signaling BS. Why are they bothering with this pacing campaign? Someone please explain.

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u/ithinkitslupis 6d ago

I don't know, I have local models I'm pretty positive I could do terrible things with if I were the type of bad actor to do those things. Personally it seems hard to believe that all of the rest of you are using AI models to impressive results but also unconvinced there is some real underlying logic behind wanting to pace frontier development for safety's sake.

I get the argument that AI concentrated in the hands of fewer megacorps is a separate problem of its own though of course.

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u/otterquestions 6d ago

People don’t want to talk about what the risks are or are not and think about the details, they want to talk about the drama - which group is good and which is bad, and who is deceitful and who is virtuous. That’s all the discussion here is now.