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3) Buy all the RAM, increasing the barrier to entry to push back the tide a bit, in time for a juicy IPO.
by fredley 3mo ago
3) Buy all the RAM, increasing the barrier to entry to push back the tide a bit, in time for a juicy IPO.
- clickety_clack 3mo ago4) Make it illegal to use anything but regulated models.
- forshaper 3mo agoa: If making it illegal fails, make it a Federal procurement requirement to use regulated models. Come up with an audit standard that only fits regulated models. Watch the preference trickle down.
- rectang 3mo agoLicense the training corpus and encourage copyright suits against outputs from models trained on unlicensed corpora.
- amanaplanacanal 3mo agoThis won't work if the courts decide that training is fair use, which certainly seems the direction they are going.
- rectang 3mo agoOutput is a separate issue from training. Courts will never decide that a identical copy spit out by an LLM is non-infringing simply because it went through an LLM stage. Copyright laundering is wishful thinking by tech folks.
- julosflb 3mo agoI like to think of llms as seamless plagiarism machines.
- vlian2088 3mo agopretty much what altman and amodei mean when they say 'safety'.
- dada216 3mo agoThen they will leave the huge advantage in cost to the competition, I mean their customers competitors. Hard to fathom how US companies will not want to use the cheaper option when EU and Asian companies can.
- stackedinserter 3mo agoWhy illegal, just pass these 3000 pages FAA-level certification, export controls and KYC. We're free country, after all!
- darig 3mo ago[dead]
- samuelknight 3mo agoBuying all the RAM can't work forever. Scarcity increases prices, high prices increase supply, improves RAM R&D budgets, and forces users to find ways to economize around low RAM availability.
- OkayPhysicist 3mo agoIt doesn't need to work forever. You just need to delay your competitors long enough that you can IPO to great fanfare, and then leave retail investors holding the bag. Founders and big investors get to cash out, everyone else gets screwed.
- thrwaway55 3mo agoI doubt that works today. Look at SpaceX the fanfare lasted 3 days before most of the insiders could offload to the retail bag holders. That AI company had the benefit of being attached to the largest technical moat. The existing AI companies can't even prevent their moat from being distilled by the Chinese token reselling industry.
- picofarad 3mo agoThis is what it feels like they went with.