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1. chasd00 · 1790595720 · focus · HN ↗

   I’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.

   1. cmiles8 · 1790598226 · focus · HN ↗

      Agree it’s crazy, but it’s the least worst thing for them right now when considering they have completely failed to deliver all the promised impacts of AI. Remember when the same AI bros were saying there’d be mass unemployment by now because of these models?

      The growth of these companies is massively impressive as is the tech, but they are an order of magnitude or more off where they need to be to justify anything like the valuations they need to stay alive.

      It’s budget season in the corporate world and from what folks are saying things are not going well for the big labs. Token budgets are being slashed and companies are switching to open weight models. That coupled with the lack of demonstrable business impact at scale is setting the big labs up for a world of hurt. Something they can more easily explain if they have to “slow down” for safety. Unfortunately for them most folks don’t seem to be falling for that trick.

      1. ineedasername · 1790601428 · focus · HN ↗

         they have completely failed to deliver all the promised impacts of AI

         Perhaps that shouldn't be seen as failure when delivering even what they have done in a short period of time has required AI capable of causing these problems? Imagine if they were even more effective with more consistent results?

         "They've failed" in the context of interpreting their actions w. calls for regulation as a purely cynical result of models increased capabilities has a little too much contradiction in it to my thinking. I won't venture a guess on where purely retreats back and some legitimate concern on their part fills in the gap but it's difficult not to see some. And in Anthropic's case it's also a little more consistent with what they've always said- as well as how they've acted at times, which is how they've ended up on the US blacklist of suppliers.

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