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Comment by firebirdn99 | Hacker News Reader

this is one underrated point. Altman talks about democratizing this technology. But if the leading LLMs concentrate at a few companies, unless governmentally mandated, they could keep guardrails from regular folks accessing it, and also with regulation capture.

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"democratizing this technology" = working closely with government

> unless governmentally mandated, they could keep guardrails from regular folks accessing it

That's not what's going to happen. Government will mandate that regular folks can't access it. Government will also do its best to make sure LLMs concentrate at a few companies, which it will often refer to as "partners."

That could also happen. Especially in a government, plagued by lobbying, and corporate interests.

the main inflection point will be when it becomes socially taboo to express an anti-ai sentiment. just like with certain medicines or whichever war is being launched currently, the media will play lapdog for the government. the true inflection point comes when the federal government recognizes whats going on and enters into the AI arms race. suddenly the media will be flooded with talk of how AGI saves lives, discovers medicines, and all the other good things it might do. but they will never mention the existential angst and dread that will hang heavily in the air or any negative aspect of total human obsolescence. when you start to see AI get political all of a sudden, inexplicably, all is lost.

"It is not a she, it is an it" - Mrs Davis (talking about Simone)

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