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Translation: “we really would love to stop spending money on training new models in order for our financials to look better ahead of our IPO”
If Anthropic's mouth is open, you can expect a lie.
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Needs to be that everyone agrees at once, otherwise the Palantirs of the world will keep going.
The Palantirs of the world (and those like them who don't advertise their work) will only be stopping when they run out of resources.
Prophesy from 75 years ago: https://libcom.org/article/player-piano-kurt-vonnegut
If only there was a centralized institution that would set rules and enforce them to create equality and fairness while building equity socially beneficial.
(Insert image here of Trump building a Mad Max style fight cage on the White House.)
Just more subterfuge dressed up as genuine concern - always to drive the investor hype machine for fear there is no more money for investment.
Open AI has done this too. It's literally just a marketing play. "We made something so scary and amazing. Pay attention to us".
In reality it's probably a nothing burger.
If you actually put forward a law to ban all AI development now they'd lobby against it.
There's no pause button. Even if "we" aren't advancing the frontier "they" won't be stopping.
There is value in quality, in advancing the frontier of logically consistent, accurate, fact based, true results as much of the time as possible for queries/problems as large/complex as possible. Focus on that.
