@deweyritten Sam Altman is asking for a brand new agency to be created and staffed on his recommendation in order to regulate that AIs won't "escape".
That's not a thing. It's sci-fi nonsense. It's like environmental regulations to prevent creating godzilla.What he's actually trying to do is invent a set of rules that only he can win, and establish that he can't be liable for the real harm he does. AI has only ever been a liability laundering machine, and he wants to enshrine that function in law.
He's also really desperate not to be regulated by the FTC, because their charter is to prevent and remedy actual harm to actual people.
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten He's also in need of keeping that financial faucet of AI on as long as possible. That 10 billion deal seems like it is funneling 75% of profits back to Microsoft.
@ian @deweyritten oh yeah. This is Sam pulling up the ladder now that open source replicas are completely eating his lunch.
The billionaire hype for AI originally was that they thought the training data, training compute, and models themselves would finally form a capital store, like land. Then they could turn all of their expensive and kind of lefty programmers into digital sharecroppers on their ai models.
But the bottom fell out of that, just like it always does, and it's hilarious
This is besides the point, but I just have to say Jennifer that you have a hell of a way with words.
@jenniferplusplus @ian @deweyritten
Pretty much what Yannic Kilcher took issue with in Sam Altman's testimony (at 5:28)
https://youtu.be/I72_GJHzH3Y?t=5m28s
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten @ileoo As was to be expected, the will to power & profit corrupts all & everyone.
The immediate danger is not AI breaking out of the box, it’s the evil ones of us breaking in and making their ”regulated model” do their bad deeds while OpenAI gets off the hook.
It’s a sleight of hand, to make us look in the wrong place. Also avoiding liability.
It’s like the social media companies again, claiming to be ”a neutral party” ”just getting information to people”. 🥶