[handoflixue]

The problem is... what's the alternative?

It's questionable whether the current government can even unite the talent required for this project. Seizing it might just push all the talent to Europe or China.

The idea of open-sourcing something that falls into the "national security" category is clearly a non-starter unless there's more powerful, classified models that can outmatch them.

I think Anthropic has clearly demonstrated the most responsibility here: they've been crying for regulations, they were careful about Project Glasswing, and they've got comically over-sensitive filters around numerous topics.

[spongebobstoes]

I think the overly sensitive filters reveals an alignment gap

if they had more success on alignment and safety research then I don't think the cludgy filters would be necessary