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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. hellweaver666 · 1790597785 · focus · HN ↗

      I have a theory... the call to slow down is not because of the true danger of LLM's but because they can't actually deliver the General AI they're promising in the near future. They will use their "caution" to justify their failure to deliver (and then when this excuse is played out they will blame regulation, energy costs or a million other things).

      1. lelanthran · 1790605092 · focus · HN ↗

         > I have a theory... the call to slow down is not because of the true danger of LLM's but because they can't actually deliver the General AI they're promising in the near future.

         Put a different way, they are calling for everyone to slow down because... they are slowing down themselves.

         To the question of "why are you slowing down", the answer of "Well, everyone is regulated to slow down" is better then "we are approaching the limits of this approach".

         1. pms · 1790666520 · focus · HN ↗

            It's simpler than this. They don'y fear their own AI, but rather open-weight models. Not because of superinteligence, but because open-weight models will eat their profit margins.

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