Copying and pasting another comment I made recently about this.
The AI CEOs say shit like this as marketing. They want people to believe that
- Their product is very capable, so people are more likely to use it
- Their product is dangerous and “only they” know how to control it. They want to create regulations so that nobody else is allowed to make something “so dangerous” again.
Their IPO is also months away. What a coincidence!
Sure they will run their 30 something GB model on my thermostat.
Would be fun if it could run distributed across 100 thermostats
These execs never watched Electric Dreams and it shows
The problem isn’t the software or AI
It’s the people and country behind it all. They’re the thieves who can’t stop their intrusiveness into our lives.
Just like they force their politics on us.
common sense isnt so common that’s how you get ai slop and hallucinations thinking they agi but they have SI.
Great day to still not own any smart home devices 🥹
Playing on horizon zero dawn trauma eh?
I feel like this is just covering up smart home devices have dogshit security. lol
“Oh, no, not our centrally controlled agents. We keep them well-disciplined with impossible tasks. It’s those pesky obliterated open-weight models running amok due to lack of government regulation!
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You’re probably eating a bowl of this popular recalled salad mix right now, News at 11.
3 out of 4 viewers are inadvertantly taking years off thier live with this one common afternoon activity, News at 11.
It’s in your kitchen and poisoning your children right now, News at 11.
I translate this as Antropic is having its workers develop methods for their LLM to attack and infiltrate smart home devices.
The practice of fear mongering to create public pressure for increased legislation, as a mechanism to suppress competition, is a well know mechanism called “regulatory capture”.
If you oppose monopolies then you oppose this practice and should view posts like this as morally wrong.
But what if there’s no suppression of competition, just guardrails put in place through legislation? I wouldn’t be opposed to that.
Take this specific issue, for example.
The “guardrail” would be “AI must only run on trusted curated infrastructure, open weight models are banned”.
Now if you told me I couldn’t use any AI, remote or local, I would not shed a tear. However the angle of this scare is squarely targeted at open weight models, that Anthropic does not do.
Sure. But that’s not realistically on the table.
You should stop viewing the US government as being on your side. They are the HR of our society. “AI legislation” in all it’s current proposed forms are just mechanisms to exclude things like open-weight models or foreign competitors from entering the market. So long as AI exists as an element of our society it will cause harms. Advocate for it’s abolition, not regulation.
“oh no, if we abolish AI then how will we cure disease X which my relative happens to have?” Good luck arguing against that.
How many diseases has AI already cured? (Serious question, I’m genuinely curious if it has)
It’s too stupid to cure disease X. Easy, there you go.
CONTEXT:
They aren’t warning about their own AI going rogue, but smaller locally hosted AI’s.
Because they fear the competition of local AI’s and want to silence them with laws.
Of fucking course
So is it time to spin up a local model on the ol 5070ti and set it for mayhem? Any tips?
Look into ollama and figure out which local model (likely from huggingface) that fits best for how much memory your graphics card has.
You can use AI (maybe copilot free) to guide you through all this. You’ll be a little better off having that 16GB of memory than I have with my 10GB. The gwen model might be a good place to start?
