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 also known as “regulatory capture,” a very longstanding technique deployed typically to protect or enshrine market dominance
@krisnelson @jenniferplusplus @deweyritten was going to say, "regulatory capture" but in advance.
@AdditionalQuench @krisnelson @jenniferplusplus @deweyritten pre-emptive regulatory capture. while feeding regulators copious amounts of crude bullshit.
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@krisnelson @jenniferplusplus @deweyritten It's striking that the data Stigler relied on in the article that launched the concept was of the Teamsters Union and the regulation of interstate trucking, in prose dripping with contempt: "Hope springs eternal in the aspiring trucker's breast." What goes around comes around.
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten He's also in need of keeping that financial faucet of AI on as long as possible. That 10 billion deal seems like it is funneling 75% of profits back to Microsoft.
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten “Environmental regulations to prevent creating Godzilla” is brilliant and I’m sure I will be nicking it.
@deweyritten@infosec.exchange@DrPrunesquallor @jenniferplusplus agreed, that was a wonderful metaphor
@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 
@deweyritten@infosec.exchangeThis is besides the point, but I just have to say Jennifer that you have a hell of a way with words.
@jenniferplusplus @ian @deweyritten
Pretty much what Yannic Kilcher took issue with in Sam Altman's testimony (at 5:28)
https://youtu.be/I72_GJHzH3Y?t=5m28s
@neia@blahaj.zone@jenniferplusplus@tech.lgbt @deweyritten@infosec.exchange It's also an advertisement for OpenAI, trying to claim that an LLM is not a bullshit generator but dangerously close to Skynet.
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten
Can't we just put it in Space Force's scope?
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten @ileoo As was to be expected, the will to power & profit corrupts all & everyone.
The immediate danger is not AI breaking out of the box, it’s the evil ones of us breaking in and making their ”regulated model” do their bad deeds while OpenAI gets off the hook.
It’s a sleight of hand, to make us look in the wrong place. Also avoiding liability.
It’s like the social media companies again, claiming to be ”a neutral party” ”just getting information to people”. 
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten He can go to Nevada and buy some land uninfringed by laws and morals. I really recommend the book "Survival of the Rich"
#sigh.
@jenniferplusplus @deweyritten If they get to the point that they're creating AI this may be useful, but nobody's actually doing that. Nobody has any real idea how to even start doing that.
@jenniferplusplus Why do you think that it's impossible for an AI that is capable of escaping to exist?
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It's all a game of power and exclusive control, all "control AI with laws" calls are nothing but"legalize it so we can win all the moneys". Even that "supposed defector AI grandfather" from Google...
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