[ozozozd]

This is a strange plea for optimism.

Sincerely or not, judgement is yours, Dario has been begging for regulation. He has been talking about how Claude models are distilled by foreign adversaries. And now the regulation is here.

What makes you think this situation that the CEO of Anthropic is asking for it temporary? Do you not believe Dario was sincere?

[xinayder]

How ironic it is that multibillion AI companies are complaining that their models are being distilled (read: used without permission) while the current top players trained their models on stolen data...

[spwa4]

We still have to see what will happen when people "uncopyright" Disney movies, Microsoft software, ...

[brookst]

There are three issues here:

1. Identity verification as a way to validate real-personness and mitigate distillation by e.g. North Korea

2. Identity veriiication as a way to limit model usage to US residents / citizens

3. The level of model which will be subject to identity verification, today and as time goes on

It’s a mistake to conflate the three and form a rock solid opinion of exactly what will happen from here to the heat death of the universe. Everything about AI is moving quickly. I doubt Dario would claim to have a perfect roadmap not subject to change.

My personal guess is that just like export controls on CPUs, this will apply differently to different regions, and will change over time. Especially with US political instability and increasing anti-science policy, I cannot imagine Dario or anyone else would want to surrender the EU and other markets to become a US-only company.

But whether I’m right or wrong, one thing I’m not is certain. I can’t imagine how anyone could be in the current situation.

[pegasus]

Do you sincerely believe Dario wants Fable to be restricted to US citizens only?

[airhangerf15]

No, he wants regulatory capture. I think if the mask ever came off, he'd want the government to come in and crush Hugging Face, Civitai and any other distribution of open weight models, forcing everyone to go through an authorized provider like Antrhopic, under some bullshit about everything else being "too dangerous." He's no better than Sam Alternative-Man and any media disagreement is likely just smoke and mirrors to make it seem like they're two players in the field when in reality, it's getting incredibly cramped.

[shevy-java]

Why else would they demand age sniffing?

I do not want to give my private data to any company, yet alone those hostiles US companies that obey the orange king. Insanity has to be contained, not allowed to spread outside of the USA. So, no to age sniffing.

The UK is also suspect here. I don't understand why they are even worse than the USA here. Someone needs to fix the UK legislation - it is by far the worst. On audits they regularly detain people and pat them down. See Auditing Britain or DJ Audits; the US Audits on the other hand almost never reach that level of escalation. Something is fundamentally flawed in the UK.

[pc86]

The UK has been worse than the US on privacy and basically any privacy-adjacent right for like 50 years, if not longer.