Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdown

mittensc•about 1 hour ago

I'm always curious why.

"we're going to slow down AI" - why?

"we care about the masses and ..." - why? why now? what changed?

I'm a bit afraid that the actual reasons are economic, they may be realizing the hole they've dug themselves in with their massive investments with a recession that seems to be brought on by their tech....

jondea•about 1 hour ago

To be fair, all of these 4 figures have warned of the danger of AI since before most people thought GPT3 level intelligence was possible.

I can believe they have economic incentives too. Although, if they do succeed in regulating themselves, won't that do more damage to their aggressive funding requirements? It will guarantee the delay (and possible banning) of the promised AGI that justifies the valuations.

mittensc•35 minutes ago

> Although, if they do succeed in regulating themselves, won't that do more damage to their aggressive funding requirements? It will guarantee the delay (and possible banning) of the promised AGI that justifies the valuations.

If their statement is to be believed and they truly slow down, that means they are afraid of something. Otherwise some of them would just betray the rest.

If that is the case, then... why? what are they afraid of?

I would wager that failure, having their companies go bankrupt might be it.

How that would happen, I have no clue... I would assume interest rates raised because we're out of options dealing with inflation would hit their ability to raise money and once that happens they're in trouble...

oli5679•about 3 hours ago

I wonder if you could pursue an antitrust cases in eu against Claude code refusing to use fable to work on some deep learning problems and downgrading to an inferior model.

Would this ever be viewed as an abuse of dominant market position, aiming to disadvantage potential entrants.

cromka•about 3 hours ago

I don't think they have a dominant position. Besides that works only if you are venturing into another field while you're dominant in another.

cobolcomesback•about 3 hours ago

Ah, I see we’ve reached the point of “Don’t Look Up” where members of the public are actively mad that they’re being warned of the incoming meteor.

ArcHound•24 minutes ago

No, the public is mad that some lads are constructing something they claim is a meteor and aiming it at earth.

AI progress is not a force of nature, there are concrete actors pushing it forward at great costs.

bvcp•about 1 hour ago

if the next decade plays out and these claims of world ending ai, given that there are many actors on this space who wont slow down or align their ai, doesnt actually eventuate will you feel kind of silly that you bought into this mass hysteria?

jondea•about 1 hour ago

Surely there are enough experts that think there's a risk that at least considering corrective action will not retrospectively look silly? (Except perhaps with hindsight bias.)

They may well be wrong, but I'm not sure you can dismiss them so easily.

And the fact it is a prisoner dilemma problem doesn't mean it's unsolvable, sure it makes it hard, but we have made _some_ progress on climate change and that's a prisoner dilemma problem.

DonsDiscountGas•38 minutes ago

Indeed, just like those idiots who bought into ozone hole, Y2K, and climate change. People have always said we had problems but somehow humanity is still alive, therefore those problems must have been fake (/s obviously).

datadrivenangel•about 1 hour ago

Actual legal document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufb8Bg9RA9LmRKOvXSm9UbP9YIT...

Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdown

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