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Palantir's Karp – frontier AI labs that are 'trying to drug addict us'(cnbc.com)
21 points by rishabhd 2 days ago | 8 comments
andsoitis 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

"Karp said enterprises need to protect their data or risk losing their business to model makers.

Karp said Chinese models can’t be blamed for distilling U.S. models when the frontier labs “distilled all the value of IP, everywhere.”

I think all of us would echo that.

mgh2 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

While the argument makes sense, the motivation is rather self-serving: he is afraid frontier models will steal his forward deployed engineering/consultancy model.

Palantir is stealing business from consultancy firms, now frontier models are going to do the same to them. He has to convince executives (main purchase decision makers) by what he does best: politics.

andsoitis a day ago | parent [-]

> While the argument makes sense, the motivation is rather self-serving

Not relevant. The idea is more important than the messenger. Generally, people will do better if they don't shoot the messenger and instead engage with the idea. Ideas have people.

SXX 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If the devil says 2+2 equals 4 we can all agree he's right.

andsoitis 2 days ago | parent [-]

What makes it interesting is that he’s the only reasonably well known tech CEO who is saying this…

free_bip 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tragic news: The worst person you know made a great point.

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andrewstuart 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sauron warns against Saruman.