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by ben_w14 hours ago |

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by dspillett14 hours ago|

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So no, it has not yet prevented anything. Which I think is the previous posters point: there is currently nothing stopping them from doing what they say they want to see happen. The problem from their PoV is that other players (those working on open source models, those in other countries who are never going to listen to any directive to slow down anyway, etc.) won't also collude with them so even if they do collude to do what they say they want everyone to do it'll be to their disadvantage, where what they actually want is for everyone else to be told to slow down while they somehow pay for a loophole to allow them to go a little faster for competitive advantage.

The speed of change is impressive, I don't think any tech ever before has gone from “brand new disruptor in public awareness” to “the incumbents feeling they have insufficient moat and so trying to arrange a regulatory capture situation” in such a short space of time.

by estearum13 hours ago|

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> what they actually want is for everyone else to be told to slow down while they somehow pay for a loophole to allow them to go a little faster for competitive advantage.

It’s hilarious that you can write this and then act befuddled as to why they would therefore want laws as an external (and ideally impartial) coordination device.

Thinking this is a super unique scenario just reveals your ignorance of both 1) game theory and 2) actual industrial history. An industry asking for regulation to stop a race to the bottom is not atypical at all.

by dspillett3 hours ago|

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> An industry asking for regulation to stop a race to the bottom is not atypical

I didn't say, or even imply, that it is. Just that it is unusual, historically speaking, to see it being pushed for so strongly just a couple of years¹ into general public awareness. Either because previously things didn't move so quickly or, more likely, because the leading companies had more moat initially to keep other adopters moving slower.

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[1] talking about LLMs and related tech, image targetting models have been in the public awareness for a fair while longer but they are not the primary concern for most.