Regardless of the motivation, pausing training runs and reallocating compute to inference seem like a good move to me, and big news for the frontier.

You also don't have to fully trust sama. There is plenty of pressure from internal employees and external (journalists etc.). It would be difficult for the company to take such a public position and simultaneously keep everyone quiet if it was a deception.

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bottlepalm 12 hours ago | parent [-]

You see it as good news, I see it as writing on the wall that they are losing control. These actions won't scale for more powerful models. We knew the frontier was going to be dangerous, it is, it only gets more dangerous from here, and no one cares until it's too late.

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reasonableklout 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok, but you still have two more weeks than you did before they paused the run. That's two more weeks for independent oversight, organizing politically, patching critical systems, or whatever you think is the right move, no?

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bottlepalm 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Two weeks is a joke. The only ones happy are OpenAI’s competitors who now have two weeks to catch up.

I don’t know what the right move is - I see us driving down a road off a cliff, no exits, pedal glued to the floor.

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reasonableklout 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I guess I'm confused why you're still on HN, arguing with people, trying to shake them out of their complacency.

I can see there is some despair in this comment, but at the same time you are doing something, and there are certainly others like you.

As for two weeks being short - as the saying goes, there are weeks where decades happen.

	▲	bottlepalm 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Counter arguments to my comments help refine my own thinking. I want someone to prove me wrong. Convince me otherwise. But yea if you can’t change the minds of a few people here, no argument works, then there’s nothing to scale up to a wider audience. My theory is that subconsciously people love using AI, myself included, it saves a lot of time, and the thought of it being taken away threatens people so they will believe conspiracies before admitting it’s dangerous.