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[+] [S] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
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    Then why think things depend on the moral compass on some people if you think there is an unescapable dynamics that's at work?

    I do think that open source community is winning that battle and it's an important battle and the ego of this five psychopath is kind of obscuring that huge victory that's won by hundreds, thousands of developers and researchers.

    I don't think GLM or Anthropic or OpenAI are "guys", good or not. They are companies, you don't anthropomorphize these, they are beings that only crave for profit.

    Actual people with actual morality are the people who are deciding to work there or to quit there. There's a reason why OpenAI is bleeding people. There's a reason why people like Le Can accepted to work for a company like Meta but imposed that they continue to publish.

    The five people that this article mentions are the trees that hide the forest.

    The inescapable mechanic is that the most egocentric people capture all the spotlight, almost by definition, but they are not AI, they are not the developers, they are not the researchers, they are not the people who innovate there. They are the people who take working efforts and turning into a soulless profit machine that often drives moral people away.

    I wish we were less blind to the actual dynamics at play and were spending less time on people trying to get artificial spotlight.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    AI (frontier LLMs) are capital intensive. In that way, it's unlike many other kinds of software. I don't think near-frontier open source models will be a thing for very long. Even if you have the papers that describe everything, it will take many millions of dollars just in compute to train frontier models, and then a small army of people doing reinforcement tuning. The people who invest that capital will want to maximize returns and will be hostile to the idea of open source.

    Another capital intensive industry that arguably does a lot of good, and probably has a lot of idealist researchers is pharma. It's also one of the most predatory industries.

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