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Safe for whom or what? Who are we protecting from AI again? Are they aiming to protect the interests of the many, or the interest of a few?

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We need protection from people who control AI. Who will provide that…

A lot of hand waving from those words. Right now LLM isn’t more dangerous than harmful google results. The future where AI sends a terminator to destroy us is the part I’m having issues with

Perhaps gangs will start sending assassin-bots at eachother, but the more realistic threat for most people is getting banned from society after you post a wrongthink somewhere and get your social credit score nuked.

Oh the gangs are doing that already.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-cartels-more-bomb-dropping...

the imminent danger is more 1) wealth transfer of a magnitude we've never seen before, destroying the future of and sending hundreds of millions into poverty in the western world and 2) scalable governmental/corporate repression, propaganda and mass surveillance stabilizing our dystopian system despite 1

not even imaginable what that tech will mean to the western neocolonial/imperial project

Open source/science! If open models approach/maintain near-SotA capabilities, then there's hope for avoiding a Big Tech AI aristocracy. Currently, that means Meta releasing their 405B GPT-4 killer (and probably subsequent models).

We'll need community unity, to implement research results, test/harden models, create/aggregate/clean massive new datasets, figure out distributed training, lower hardware requirements, encourage experts to join the effort, praise companies who contribute to open source, etc.

You don't have to tell me that we'll fail. I know. But we have to try. It's the only way we'll have AI aligned to us, not a handful of techbros with savior complexes.

In my opinion, regulations are more important. Open source models cannot get to the same mainstream adoption as closed source ones, simply because closed source models will get more funding.

No-one beyond the tech circle will ever hear about these models or use them. This is a good second step but the first step is regulations.

My reading of this is that what OpenAI wants is safety from competition.

Yep. Monopoly through regulatory capture is the end goal of most of the AI x-risk nerds.

Safe for the shareholders, my fellow patriot

The team was disbanded.

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