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by firefoxd 35 days ago
I'm expecting a ban of "foreign" llms due to "safety concerns" before the year is over.

It will have nothing to do with the actual performance. But anthropic has set the bar for mythos-like systems, and whatever meets that loosely defined bar will be unsafe for the public.

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How would that work in practice?
All American services won't be allowed to provide the models. Huggingface for example. The same way BYDs are illegal in the US.
You wouldn't VPN a car
And your company wouldn't VPN a banned model.
The same way a company wouldn't torrent books?
I can see this happening, but I suspect it will have the opposite to the intended effect - it will mean companies will move or move their R&D to countries with the appropriate freedoms.
If you host it or are caught running it locally, then you go to jail.

Since it's a national security issue, they'll be inclined to enforce aggressively.

Next we'll be putting smart people in jail for being too dangerous.
A tale as old as time

> Despite his research, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis allegedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. In the asylum, he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later from a gangrenous wound on his right hand that may have been caused by the beating.

You jest, but clever folks with “dangerous knowledge” have to deal with pretty hefty guardrails.
Well, goodbye to US tech and welcome China then I guess, nobody will wait and you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
As if there is no actual risk as the models progress, give me a break.

I seem to live in an alternate reality that Claude is the only thing that seems to ever say anything smart at this point.

Almost everything I read from humans is a hallucination and performative bullshit.