Comment by rapind
5 hours ago
> It’s clear they are scapegoating national security and China at this point to build an anti-competitive moat.
They are also fear mongering (and getting shills to as well) the idea that once open weight (Chinese) models catch up to Mythos we're all doomed. Maybe I'd be bit less cynical if they weren't prepping for IPO?
Wasn't OpenAI spreading similar FUD back when GPT 2 came out?
Guys... AGI is right around the corner. Pinky swear. Now buy our stock.
Keep in mind that the entire US economy is currently propped up by AI spending, so a lot of people (banks, government) are incentivized to make sure these companies succeed. Expect this propaganda to ratchet up a notch if / when the economy starts to nose dive.
Yes. They're turning on the consent manufacturing machine to make it an issue of "national security" to download some gguf file from Hugging Face. Absolutely disgusting.