| all I see are more arguments for my opinion that digital assets + capitalist marketplace = human stupidity. > you're giving away your business crown jewels to competitors that can then nearly-clone your model without all the hard work you did to build up your own fine-tuning dataset. you're loosing the capacity to continue to earn money for work that is already done. This just means they're not gonna be able to charge rent on the done work for too long. the work is the training of the model. I chose to reject this to way to frame the issue; i.e. I reject that it is problem that they're giving away that hard work. It's only a problem due to social (market) ideologies of ownership which are necessary only by the logic of trade (or commerce). As I see it, Eliezer is pointing out hat people who use the "product API"/ "chaptGPT service" can use this in such a way that they can clone it so to stop being a customer. I see some kind of divine comedy in this (due to my own ideological beliefs). > OR can successfully sue any competitor that engages in shoggoth mask cloning. this is just the legal, modern day equivalent of old school "break their knees unless they pay you" |
I don't EY is advocating for this, so much as saying "unless AI companies can find a way to establish such a racket, they won't be profitable". That's a factual claim, not a value judgment.