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by ben_w 823 days ago
If there is a model which is, for the sake of the argument, absolutely definitely and unambiguously powered by piracy at a massive scale, then the act of forcing it to be released is going to necessarily entail all of the possible harms from that specific act of IP piracy.

IMO, if a model is deemed to be such, all copies of that model should be destroyed. Actual copyright law allows for the destruction of equipment used for copyright infringement, and those laws were written in the days where this meant "a printing press".

> the whole AI safety bullshit performance

The people who care about AI safety have been loudly warning about it for so much longer than these companies and models have existed, that they roll their eyes at newspapers using stock photos from Terminator to illustrate the discussion.

> The entire AI industry

Also includes self-driving cars, spam filters, medical diagnosis tools, …