This is not a surprise, is it? Frontier labs will keep very useful models with high risk, aka unrestricted models, for internal use only. That's the only way to reduce risk and liability.
Yes, this sucks for anyone who is not working at the labs.
Yes, this sucks for anyone who is not working at the labs.
So you (and most everyone else apparently) are upset with one lab that stood up against domestic surveillance, and automated kill chains, even though they knew that would be bad for business?
I suppose if you don't take a stand for safety at all, then you don't take the risk of being called a hypocrite.
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They're not saying "this is an existential risk" while pushing hard on exactly that risk.