I think it’s the same reason the CEO’s of these corporations are clamoring about their own products being doomsday devices: it gives them massive power over crafting regulatory policy, thus letting them make sure it’s favorable to their business interests.

Even more frustrating when you realize, and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, these new “AI” programs and LLMs aren’t really novel in terms of theoretical approach: the real revolution is the amount of computing power and data to throw at them.

The funniest thing I’ve seen on this is the ChatGPT CEO, Altman, talking about how he’s a bit afraid of what they’ve created and how it needs limitations – and then when the EU begins to look at regulations, he immediately rejects the concept, to the point of threatening to leave the European market. It’s incredibly transparent what they’re doing.

Unfortunately I don’t know enough about the technology to say if the algorithms and concepts themselves are novel, but without a doubt they couldn’t exist without modern computing power capabilities.