Dario, shut up.
Open models exist and will always exist. You will have to compete against them. That is a good thing for 99.99% of the world, namely the payers of tokens. You are not going to convince us otherwise.
Open models exist and will always exist. You will have to compete against them. That is a good thing for 99.99% of the world, namely the payers of tokens. You are not going to convince us otherwise.
For reference, the original article is https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai.
The prospect of software (or whatever one wants to call it) capable of making autonomous decisions, self-replicating, potentially hiding itself, and even evolving should be deeply unsettling.
Don't look up, people /s
Anthropic is asking for anti-trust laws to be waived, asking for government permission to form a cartel, and asking that a governing body of that cartel be an organization loaded up with people that have ties to Anthropic. One of the things that cartel gets to do is outlaw local models.
This is the moat that they've been unable to find, so they're trying to get the government to create one for them, and stamp out competition, stamp out consumer choice.
The prospect of software making autonomous decisions is as scary as the advent of the automobile. Back in 1897 there were people warning of the dangers of the horseless carriage and how unseemly and ill-considered it was: https://www.farmcollector.com/looking-back/rebuttal-horseles...
Anthropic is tapping into this same fear of the new to gain something that would otherwise be illegal. You can bet they've used their models to produce a strategy that tells them step by step how to win hearts and minds, and you're seeing it play out in blog posts, and "oh my gosh!" research findings like this one. You have to ask the question, however, what does Anthropic and the other big providers have to gain if we do as they ask?
They're not looking out for us.
Bacteria exist, and will be the last things to go extinct when the sun boils Earth's oceans away. We, multicellular life, have to compete with them.
Yet, we do not give up; many us even use soap.
> You are not going to convince us otherwise.
What would it take to change your mind?
Some are calling for every CEO in https://www.felonybench.com/ to go to jail, while others think it's all just a hoax.
Do you need to see the open models doing this kind of thing, either from a deliberate virus or just for reasons as daft as those on felonybench? Making everyone's energy bills higher far out of proportion even to the value of the compute they steal? Or would even that not convince you?