alt Hacker NewsSurprisingly incoherent for Anthropic and Dario (cue peanut gallery — “always has been!” No, I don’t think so. I think this is new).
It seems to me like there is just no good answer to how one could possibly stop open weight models from being used for nefarious purposes. How are you going to enforce guardrails on open source? The only way is to turn the USA into a 1984-type totalitarian surveillance state (even more so than it is). Unable to say that, we just get this floundering instead. How long is not giving them chips going to slow them down? Until we RSI? Then what? Just because RSI runs off the exponential doesn’t mean that the eventual open-weight Moonshot Mythos won’t be able to make bioweapons. Genuinely what is the endgame.
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Well,maybe try talking to people and understand that not all seven or more billion people on the planet must conform to the interests of a handful of english speaking capitalists.
Instead of bombing them, try justice. Yes, it is more complicated. And yes, you will have to give, and not take.
I think you need to be more clear in your argument.
Training a decent open weight model takes atleast millions of dollars and they are all associated with real people and companies, almost exclusively in the US and China. So just make normal open weigjt go through bio testing before release and that gets you a lot of the way there.
There is more problems like finetuning but you need to start somewhere.