Comment by ryanmcgarvey
6 days ago
Is it still regulatory capture if it also happens to be true?
I'll note that, if it is true, the only other alternative is to ensure liability is held by whoever trained and/or provided the inference for the damage done by the model. This would effectively shut down open-weight models anyway.
> Is it still regulatory capture if it also happens to be true?
To an extent, yes. For example, aircraft: one can say something broadly true like "it is important that planes do not fall out of the sky" while also calling for not-strictly-necessary regulations that happen to support your own business like "we need to be able to inspect factories at any time for compliance, so the factories must be local to our nation".
Then it’s just regulation working properly.