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by mistermann 838 days ago
I'm hoping open source models are like the genie getting out of the bottle once and for all.
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Be careful what you wish for.
Your comment is the justification for keeping these things closed, but honest to god who cares? You can already use gpt4 for spam and stuff while an open source llm is too stupid to be genuinely dangerous but far less annoying.
Oh I know, we live in a world of very sophisticated but brittle systems, most built on lies, half-truths, and delusions. Unwinding all of this while avoiding calamity is tricky business, but continuing to kick the can down this road we are currently on also seems like a high risk strategy.
To what end?
Hopefully: the eventual pursuit of Utopia.

I think the Humans may need a bit more of a push than this though to get their asses in gear and their brains turned on, but removing/minimizing the advantage of only certain actors having access to powerful tools is a big deal imho.