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Supposedly the change of heart came after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally," the Huggingface escape. To me it sounds like he's worried about the competition breathing down his neck and wants someone to come in and call a time-out.

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[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can tell when Altman is lying by noticing that his mouth is open.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Sufficient but unnecessary imo.

Sometimes he lies in print, tbd whether he talks out the words when he types.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Way to get ahead of the slowdown Sam. Control the narrative. You "chose" to scale back.

"Actually we almost made the A.I. too good and it scared me cuz of how good it was"

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why do we care that some greedy bastard is doing a fake apology tour?

[–] artifex@piefed.social 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because he’s a greedy bastard with the ear of every head of state, standing at the top of a $1.6T pyramid scheme we’re all tangled up in.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

We gotta stop worshipping these guys because they have power's ear. The people are way, way more important than lil' sammy whatsisname?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

LOL...those graphs didn't infinitely extrapolate Sam?

99% of failed companies are from graph extrapolation in board rooms.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've just been reading the Wikipedia article about the huggingface intrusion, and it reminds me strongly of the descriptions of hacking in Neuromancer.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thats why there are no smart locks in my house. Deadbolts and keys only.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

This is the lock picking lawyer here queue sound of rock impacting glass

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago

BREAKING: A Billionaire Said Some Bullshit.

I know downvotes are generally frowned upon here... But c'mon. This ain't what we should be hyping up attention for.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

Ahhh yes, decelerate into the singularity. We wouldnt wanna ram it full speed, it might break!

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I’d be ok with him rapidly “decelerating” at end of a long fall…

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

He can do what he wants - except closing Pandora's box. It stays open. The race is on, whether he participates or not.

[–] danielfm123@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

How much of the costs of open AI is R&D

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

how much hype are you going to milk from something that could have been stopped with ctrl c

[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

Ctrl-C doesn’t get him the big valuations though. Gotta follow the money.

[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Ah!

You are "ready" to decelerate... It's going to be hard for you to do so, it is going to take some efforts, but since you are ready to do it...

Just for us I presume, how sweet from you Sam, how sweet...

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Nvidia is backing the wrong horse

[–] borokov@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Meanwhile, me still using GPT 4 as: "Rephrase: " CTRL+v

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago
[–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago
[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 193 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Every "Sam Altman said..." headline can be summed up as:

"Manipulative liar says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear."

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

...to attract more inversement.

[–] ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

He is just like Elon Musk a tech bro con man that has the backing of some of the richest companies and people in the world.

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 35 points 1 week ago

"Tech crypto grifter says thing to grift people with crypto, tech or both. More at 11"

Although i cant imagin any sign of a pullback would be good for any of the companies in the AI bubble. While probably not important on the specifics of what he is saying it is a "we should slow down" which the market aint gonna like. No breaks on this gravy train Sammy boy!

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 106 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Likely translation: scaling their models is hitting diminishing returns, while the business world is slowly realizing the math ain't mathing and they're not suddenly 10x more efficient and profitable than before LLM adoption.

So Sammy and the others need a plausible cover story why capabilities aren't evolving at break neck speed anymore, to prevent their beautiful bubbly bubble from crashing down on them

This is the part I don't get. No learned model I'm aware of scales well forever. Eventually, funneling more data just isn't going to do the trick.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's hope they get the Enron treatment for their actions

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm thinking more French revolution treatment.

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[–] Miller@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] artifex@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we've definitely been seeing diminishing returns with the latest frontier models. I think that's why when GLM and Kimi come in at 1/5 the price of Opus but are just as good, or when Deepseek comes in at 1/10 the price and is catching up quickly, they have to worry. There may be nowhere for them to go.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

He should accelerate himself off a cliff.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 46 points 1 week ago

Company can't keep up with competitors, claims it is for altruism

[–] Zier@fedia.io 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sam is a con man, why is anyone listening to him.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

because of near-constant media stories like this one

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 34 points 1 week ago

Stop paying attention to this lying fuckwad.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No he isn't, the only reason Sam Altman would hit the breaks is if he was falling behind and needed to catch up.

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