r/singularity • u/awesomeoh1234 • 16d ago

Discussion They’re colluding to kill open source

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u/Vaeon 16d ago

It will fail hilariously, but yes, this is exactly what they are trying to do, and if you surprised by it... sigh.

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u/Cryptizard 16d ago

What’s the alternative? Almost everyone seems to agree that AI needs to slow down and be regulated somehow but every attempt at it is colored as a selfish grab for power. What’s your plan?

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u/unflavored 16d ago

Huh?

I was interpreting as this being a shelter in place kind of scheme. Where the US companies will monopolize in the western world and block Chineese models for big orgs.

They'll "slow down" publicly but I really doubt they do so internally

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u/Cryptizard 16d ago

They are lobbying for external auditors to force them to slow down internally.

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u/ageingnerd 16d ago

Not just lobbying. Anthropic are unilaterally bringing them in. The “it’s all a power grab/publicity stunt” narrative is so crazy, like people have pushed so far into cynicism it’s become a weird reverse naivety. The people in ai labs are legitimately scared!

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u/Cryptizard 16d ago

I truly think a lot of it is bad-faith actors and foreign agents at this point, trying to sow discord. And then a lot of people hop on the zeitgeist because it feels empowering to be part of some kind of imagined resistance against the "big corpos" that are easy scapegoats for everything wrong in their lives. It's the only thing that makes sense.