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We've very quickly reached the point where AI models are now too dangerous to publicly release, and HN users are still trying to trivialize the situation.

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GPT-2 was already too dangerous to publicly release according to OpenAI, however they still did. If something is not dangerous, it's also not useful.

Are they actually too dangerous to publicly release? It seems like a little bit of marketing from the model-producing companies to raise more funding. It's important to look at who specifically is making that statement and what their incentives are. There are hundreds of billions of dollars poured into this thing at this point.

You really think some marketers got leaders from companies across the industry to come together to make a video - and they're all in on the conspiracy because money?

How is that even remotely implausible?

It’s a lot more implausible than a really smart model that fits the trend line of models getting smarter perfectly.

Why is everyone here trying to invent conspiracies to explain the obvious? Actually I do know why - cope.

That’s literally exactly the kind of thing marketing does, and has been doing for a very long time. Did you just arrive on earth from outer space or something?

Yeah

Yes? Saying "conspiracy" is overstating things. A company can make a marketing push overselling their product and then have exclusive corporate partners that benefit from being associated with that marketing. That just seems like normal business that happens every day, and being skeptical of marketing messages should be your default position.

Says the marketing department of the company who is apparently still working on these AI models and will 100% release them to the public when their competitive advantage slips.

Marketing pushing to release a dangerous model is a lot more likely than marketing labeling a model of dangerous when it really isn't. If anything marketing would want to downplay the danger of a model being dangerous which is the opposite of what Anthropic is doing.

Everyone here doing mental gymnastics to imagine Anthropic playing 5-D chess because they're in denial of what is happening in front of their faces. AI is getting more capable/dangerous - it's not surprising to anyone. The trendlines have pointed in this direction for years now and we're right on schedule.

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