Yes, it does.

(This is actually one of the topics I tend to beat to death, so...)

It's not unique to AI or to any other industry or organization.

Broadly, in the competition to climb the ladder of success in a hierarchical system, an individual must continually make choices.

A person with honor, integrity and/or empathy will have some number of possible choices that they'll eliminate immediately, even if they're strategically superior, simply because their moral standards won't allow for them.

People without any of those qualities, which is to say psychopaths and sociopaths, are not similarly constrained. They're wholly willing and able to choose the most personally beneficial course of action, entirely regardless of the harm it might do others.

So all other things being more or less equal, psychopaths and sociopaths actually have a competitive advantage in hierarchical systems, so for all intents and purposes, hierarchical systems actually reward and effectively select for antisocial personality disorder.

The incentive structure is how we behave as humans. Just about anyone would do anything for a million bucks, including working for a child rapist, so as long as that's true the incentive is for child rapists to make sure they have a lot of money to employ people so they won't get in trouble for raping children.

Until people are willing to tell these pedophile billionaires to fuck off, it's going to keep getting worse.

Doubt there's a straight line from LLMs to ASI, gonna need some new architecture.

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.