> ...while placing the blame on other companies.
The major LLM manufacturers removing the safeties from their next-gen computer-attacking software, testing it with instructions to attack computers, and performing that test on an Internet-connected network is -at best- willful negligence.
The major LLM manufacturers getting together and declaring that they're working on WMDs [0], declaring that they are so scared that are incapable of safely working on said WMDs, and begging Congress to write new regulations so that they -somehow- become capable of safe work again looks quite a lot like anticonsumer collusion. It looks even worse when you consider that instead of begging for someone else to make them stop, they could all have chosen to stop... because -like- not only are they the major LLM manufacturers, they've locked in nearly all of the compute needed to work on this stuff. [1]
And I'll just include by reference all the dirt that the ongoing NYT case is digging up, and then gesture at the fact that software that happily executes attacker-controlled code cannot be made safe.
Nvidia is a shitbag of a company, but they provide hardware and hype. They're not the ones attacking other people's computers, claiming to be extremely serious about safety while releasing software that ignores the last fifty-ish years of computer security lessons, or -if the claims of the major LLM manufacturers are to be believed- threatening the entire human race with annihilation unless they get new regulations created just for them.
[0] ...it's fair to call something a 10% chance of killing all humanity a WMD...
[1] "What about China?", you might retort. What about China? The major LLM manufacturers go on and on about how the only reason China has made any notable progress in the field is because China is "distilling" the models they've trained. They think so little of China that they want to exclude it from the conversation about LLM manufacturer regulation. Seems like if you bring OpenAI's and Anthropic's models offline, China goes absolutely nowhere, no? Where is China they gonna get all the compute needed to build new cutting-edge models? It's pretty much all locked up in the US!