If Sam Altman succeeds, people will just use Chinese/Russian AI instead

Question

I mean, if the regulations require a special government license to develop large language models, then that will stop US universities and open source community from making models competitive to GPT-4, 5, etc. But nothing stops people from using similar models built by China or Russia.

david927 · Accepted Answer

Yes. This is just anti-competitive behavior and it won't work.

wmf · Answer

Supposedly LLMs are already banned in China for being counterrevolutionary and don't make me laugh about Russia. Maybe we'll see an AI lab buy up FTX's offices though.

scrum-treats · Answer

"But nothing stops people from using similar models built by China or Russia."
It's not a mystery that US is in cold war with Russia and China. Nor is it a mystery that there is advanced AI beyond GPT-4 that we poor public don't have access to. But the government does.
The idea would be to establish rules for public vs. private use, build sophisticated detection mechanisms presumably in coordination with the rest of the world (because world domination is a thing), and cripple any competing advancements.
We can say it's anti-competitive, reduce the scope of awareness, however it's shoring up to be a significant concern in terms of national security. And humanity. Interested to see where this goes, and how fast...

_the_inflator · Answer

The company that named itself "Open". ;)

sharemywin · Answer

Chinese/Russian AI, aren't there distributed decentralized versions already?

smoldesu · Answer

If the handcuffs are golden enough, US regulators will gladly try them on.