Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture

bix6

Can anyone recommend me a viable alternative to these clowns? I would like to move my work (excel and light coding) off the big guys. My computer isn’t very powerful though so I need to upgrade or find hosted models (host my own?) that won’t steal my sensitive data? Edit: miss me with the downvotes. These guys are clowns. I want alternatives. Thank you to everyone offering help!

badsectoracula

> Amodei, meanwhile, outlined some very specific things he wants from Washington: Stop selling Nvidia chips to China so its AI companies can’t build better models, and a crackdown on model distillation. You have to be the embodiment of hubris to believe the only reason a technologically advanced country of 1.4 billion people with several AI labs and government support can make competitive models is because they all distill yours.

mcshicks

I think there is an obvious example in the FAA of a successful safety regulation of another potentially dangerous technology industry. A similar agency would seem to me like a logical starting point. I did some minor work a long time ago in commercial avionics software and while it was a very tedious process I did have confidence in it. Obviously a lot of things would have to be different but the basic structure of development and testing standards, record keeping, transparency, and government incident investigation seems like the place to start.

DrProtic

I was on edge for last few months, but made a decision recently to not give another dollar to Anthropic. It’s so obvious they’re playing safety card to get politicians to reign down on individual’s freedoms.

VCFundedGenYer

All these companies are suddenly crying about "slowing down" after insisting on having no guardrails nor restrictions? All at once in lockstep? Who paid them to say this? These are all lies.

emptybits

Four ostensibly competing billionaires agree with each other and want worldwide government regulations around their moneymaking? o_O Chilling and suspicious. Of course, this will lead to a modicum of safety in some provable way to justify (in uncritical minds) the rest of the implications: fewer freedoms and more surveillance for everyone else.

password54321

If it was that serious, we would be seeing a lot more action than a tweet and a blog post. I'm not even sure why the public needs to know about how "scary" AI is as we can't do much, don't know any of the technical details and Anthropic have already decided to punish anyone involved in anti-ai protests. "Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-surve...