[thagsimmons]

The more interesting question is how long it will be until we have open, freely available models that are competitive with closed models. It's now clear that everything is going to be disrupted by generative AI - we haven't even begun to think through the consequences. I would much rather have a world where everyone has unfettered access to these capabilities, even if the risks of societal disruption are extreme, than have them controlled by the tech princelings of Silicon Valley.

We urgently need to fund efforts to create the technology to train and publish open models in a distributed way.

[justaj]

Wasn't OpenAI initially going for exactly this until they decided to make it proprietary?

(Hence the term "Open" in OpenAI)

[CamperBob2]

Exactly.

It's time for the next Stallman to emerge.

[jacooper]

Stable diffusion, for Chatgpt, I like it.

[goertzen]

These models are awesome but releasing them in the wild (I.e. not sandboxed) seems really irresponsible.

I hope these modes are prohibitively expensive to train so we can figure out a way to release them responsibly when they can be open.

[seydor]

What is irresponsible is not teaching the public what is coming. The press is currently not doing a good job of explaining what chatGPT is and how it works so that people can assess what to expect of it. The adoption and evolution of these systems will probably hit people like a ton of bricks in 2023.

[wilcanfly]

Just curious, in a brief couple sentences of what do you think the first disruptive impacts to occur will be?

[oceanplexian]

I’m not sure I understand irresponsible vs. responsible in this context. Putting this in the hands of a few for-profit corporations but not releasing it to the open source community sounds extremely irresponsible.

[jerpint]

What would you define as responsible vs. Irresponsible?

[bheadmaster]

I assume along the lines of

    irresponsible = released to the public full of evil <insert slur here>

    responsible = kept in the walled garden of good <insert corp here>