I don't see it as a ladder at all, unless you claim Anthropic built their own models by training off of other closed frontier models, violating those models' ToS
to be clear, I'm not saying what they did in scraping to learn was ethical. It wasn't. But I just don't see it as pulling the ladder. The ladder is still there.
to me ladder pulling would be:
- web scraping for model training becomes illegal, with heavy punitive penalties
- training models above a certain compute threshold requires government licensing
- expensive third-party audits are required before deploying models above a capability threshold
I hope they get nationalized and either the models are open-sourced or the profits are owned by the public.
In this scenario, this is your idea. You aren't "training off of other closed frontier models" in a distillation sense. This is your insight, your idea, possibly gained from reading a lot of papers and built on your own experience.
How do you feel if the model refuses? Do you consider the scenario I described a violation of someone else's rights?