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If a billionaire is asking to be regulated, then it is long past time to do so. But under no circumstance should they ever be regulated in the way they want, or by the people they choose.
@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 yeah, the thing with LLMs is that the most is small and is growing shallower by the minute. Adding regulation dictated by the first mover is the only way for them to get their investment back, I guess. Not that's not a good enough reason to add regs.
@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
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten I mean, it's never too late for regulatory capture 