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Comment by rustyhancock

10 hours ago

> the White House intends to generally regulate Mythos-class models (whatever exactly that means)

This is not at all surprising. And I hope people don't make the mistake that it's a "this administration" problem.

It was obviously from the early days of these LLMs that the shoe was going to drop and we (as Joe public) would not retain access. I mean that once ChatGPT3 dropped it was clear there was some level of functionality at which we would be denied further access.

The only carve out will be as per older technical innovations the US is more concerned with foreign national access than US citizen access at home.

I don't remember the details with encryption but it was basically you have to ship a breakable version for the rest of the world, and you generally sometimes ship a backdoored version.

And Anthropic is more concerned by what they are asked to do to US citizens than the broader group.

Same story with encryption, CPUs, GPUs, blah blah blah.

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throwaway2037  8 hours ago 

    > This is not at all surprising. And I hope people don't make the mistake that it's a "this administration" problem.

It seems logical for govts to want to regulate AI/LLMs. In the US, would it be FCC (comms) or something new?

b112  9 hours ago

Yet unlike CPUs/GPUs, there's currently zero way to lock down who has access.

Giving access to 'citizens', with the current way the Internet operates, is absurd. One back door into a desktop, workstation, and 'validated citizens' are now 'hackers from where-ever'.

  • x______________  9 hours ago

    >and 'validated citizens' are now 'hackers from where-ever'.

    Yes, because knowledge is power, and information is meant to be free.

withoutboats3  8 hours ago

> I don't remember the details with encryption but it was basically you have to ship a breakable version for the rest of the world, and you generally sometimes ship a backdoored version.

I do remember the details: the result of Bernstein v. United States was that you have a First Amendment right to publish code because it is a speech act and so the USGOV cannot prevent you from publishing effective encryption algorithms. Will model weights be afforded the same protection? What about serving a model without publishing its weights? We shall see.