Pretty happy for anything that will throw some sand into the gears of AI development, given all the negative externalities that are becoming apparent, even if the admin is doing it for the usual dumbass reasons.

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softwaredoug 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s worse than that.

It’s available to large companies. The WH gives them a competitive advantage against the rest of the market.

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mirsadm an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Does it? That's not even well established yet. These things aren't that good.

	▲	palata an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I am all against AI (precisely because of all the externalities, like energy consumption and concentration of power and inequalities), but they definitely do give a competitive advantage in many cases.

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stronglikedan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

crony capitalism has accomplished this for decades, unfortunately

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baby_souffle 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It’s available to large companies

... that are friendly to this administration.

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jstummbillig 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure if the USG reserving all superior models for themselves and big corp is sand in AI dev? Inference is clearly constrained, people still want better models. Everyone will still use the best they can afford -- now additionally limited by what the USG allows them to pay for.