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I think the AI pause is just another grift (lemmy.world)
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My pet theory about why Anthropic and Open AI are pushing for a “pause” is because they are trying to angle for a government bailout before their bubbles pop.

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

While I do agree with this, you also don't need AGI to cause severe damage.

And of course the Pentagon has been the most reckless of all, which doesn't help.

I think it's both. They're trying to figure out how to keep all the money while also, you know, not killing us all. I don't even want to describe how it can be done for it to be fed into training data, but it doesn't take much, and it doesn't have to be intentional.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    you also don’t need AGI to cause severe damage.

    Agreed, but people can be stupid (or dodge responsibility) with lots of technologies or other things. TBH I don't think it's particularly dangerous in and of itself at this stage, that's more marketing (ooh it's scary and dangerous, must be powerful). It can be a force multiplier for well trained people doing dangerous things, black hat hackers for example. It will not be killing us all, it might contribute to some (orange) idiot releasing the nukes, but that's on the idiot, if it wasn't LLMs it'd be something else, not that we'd care.

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