Comment by mips_avatar
10 days ago
This is what OpenAI/Anthropic want, it's better marketing than they can pay for -- and it creates a precedent for permanently banning the next generation of open weights models
10 days ago
This is what OpenAI/Anthropic want, it's better marketing than they can pay for -- and it creates a precedent for permanently banning the next generation of open weights models
Banning next gen open models would never happen globally, and would be a major disadvantage to any country that does.
If the USA continues to put barriers into the release of models, open and/or foreign models will start to out perform them.
If open models are competitive enough nothing will stop even US companies from running them locally.
damn, never thought about this - but yeah this is where we are heading.
open weight models - will be deemed too risky to be out in the open - since they can be abused by "bad actors" (unwashed masses)
100% this is the direction all govts will go. This isn't specific to any political party, it's just about communications control. I don't think open source models will be directly capped, necessarily, but all commercial/easy-to-setup models will be heavily regulated.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they started going after open-source as a whole and labeling it “communism” like the old Microsoft days.
So much of everybody's infra depends on FOSS. I think every industry giant would dogpile whichever politician tried to go after FOSS as a whole.
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It’s going to be a bit trickier to do that, even banning US providers from hosting them legally might be tricky to do.
I think it's going to be like DMCA, like hard to convict you for having the files but distributing them might be illegal
The EU bans ASML for American chip use.
America bans intel and amd from exporting chips.
Whats next.
Yup, regulatory capture.
But in this model, there is no regulator, there is just the Whitehouse deciding who gets to use the AI. Nobody has “captured” Trump here.
The problem is they've convinced mainstream people that a model that can find a bug in Microsoft Windows is a bigger problem than Microsoft not caring about fixing it.
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