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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
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I'm not an AI techie and I'm not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I'm having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I've heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can't really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They want regulation to create a cartel. Failing that they want hysteria to increase pre IPO valuations.

As Patrick Boyle said. It would be like Coca Cola, Pepsi and Irn Bru getting together to beg for regulations because their soft drinks are just too delicious.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What's going to happen is:

  • The big players know that the token pricing crisis is coming up.
  • When the price increases hit, regular users are going to scramble for alternatives.
  • Local models will be an attractive alternative for many users. The cost of hardware and energy will constrain local model power, but many will be willing to live with it.
  • So these would-be cartel members want to hit the local and open weight models with the "safety" card. Otherwise they might be holding the bag on all of those data centers.

"You see, it's just too dangerous to humanity to experiment with AI at home. You need to use a safe provider like Open AI."

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

eventually someone's just gonna sell cloud computing at a competitive price through a free model and obliterate anthropic and openai. it'll be like ISP, AOL was the hottest company in the world at one point with a "locked down ecosystem" and now it's just a tiny brand with a tiny but loyal customer base of senior citizens.