Comment by glooglork
5 months ago
Even without the problem of insufficient financing, you probably need to bend some rules to be at the top of LLM game (not just how you collect the training data, we all sort of forgot that Altman was kicked out of OpenAI because the board thought he was prioritizing features over security).
With all the regulations and paperwork around EU projects, I can't really see them competing against private sector.
The losers in the "rule bending" are humans, whose creative works are turned into weights, whose livelihoods are diminished by indiscriminate greed.
I'm all for the advancement of AI, but not at the cost of humility and compassion for those enabling the models to be built.
Model building is already a community project, you just weren't asked if you wanted to contribute. You just did. Without compensation.
"rule bending" is putting it lightly.
Data is getting scraped, models are being built, nobody is really going to stop that now.
You may wish it wasn't like that (not you, but all of us), but there's no way China or USA block their companies in development of key technology like this, and I think we (EU countries) should act in the same way.