My how fast the AI tech bros move to protect corporations but don’t move to protect the average coder, artists, writers.

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      6 hours ago

      Yes, apparently they’re suddenly worried that stealing other people’s work—which is their business model—might backfire on them. I assume this is a measure intended to give the impression—in the face of one of the countless lawsuits against Anthropic—that they’re actually taking licensing or intellectual property rights seriously. I can’t think of any other explanation, because Anthropic simply can’t afford to have questions raised about where the training data used by their models actually comes from.

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        Pulling up the stolen ladder before anyone can steal it to use to steal more stuff while it’s still enforceable to do so.

        Mabey just make all ladders illegal, unless you have a government contracted monopoly.

        The entire idea of copyright is going to be tested at many levels, and most people don’t even understand why yet.

        Interesting times.

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      No, they just enabled Chinese LLMs to be the forefront of reverse engineering. Because people will do what they want to do.

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        51 minutes ago

        Just ran into Qwen’s version of guardrails myself, and am quite annoyed. Guess I’m gonna have to look into abliterated models next.

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        No, they just enabled Chinese LLMs to be the forefront of reverse engineering. Because people will do what they want to do.

        Their goal is simple… everything they are doing right now is striving to make the US ban individual hardware.

        Chinese models are open, anyone can get them… stopping the flow of data on private computers is impossible. Hardware however is getting more expensive, hardware manufacturers are already deciding to move out of the consumer market on their own. The US government is already establishing laws to prevent shipping foreign hardware into the country.

        Altman’s giving the game away when he does this “it’s so sad that all this ram is sitting around in people’s home computers unappreciated when it could do so much more in a data center”.

        The idea is to sell the message "AI is out of the bag, and it’s world ending technology. Basically they are going to imply that the guardrails in their data centers are the only thing that’s preventing all AIs from destroying the software industry, and teaching teenagers to build bombs and hacking the CIA, and the only possible response would be to stop all direct to consumer hardware sales with anything more than the bare minimum needed to stream a PC out of a data center.

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          If private hardware becoming scare would send America back to the stone age, completely choke technological progress.

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            probably, but don’t you know, everything in the cloud is the FuTuRe!! owning things yourself is the way of the past, it’s like physical disks you can resell or something.

            Sad thing with the exception of price, it’s probably not that far off that most average people’s usages will be similar. but yeah the idea of paying by the hour or cpu grade etc… for a computer is going to suck… and be far more expensive for gamers, hobbyists etc…

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          This is all pretty obvious and I agree. They can no longer protect their imaginary property if they allow it to be ran in your computer’s memory or stored on you computers hard drive.

          The cat is definitely out of the bag, as in their own AI models are making them obselete. The race to make money before the end is what motivates them. They will ride the roal coaster to our societal demise because they only care about money. These people shouldn’t be in charge of a small fast food restaurant let alone multi-billion dollar companies.

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            1 hour ago

            mostly quoting their own people who are going out on the news and saying “yeah we really believe that there’s maybe a 10% chance we destroy the world with this”.