| ▲ | anonymars 3 hours ago | |
This is some truly farcical shit: > The plaintiffs don’t object to the companies individually deciding to slow their own progress in favor of safety. They instead argue in the complaint that antitrust laws forbid them from taking the “shortcut” of agreeing to “substitute collective restraint for individual accountability.” A competitive market allows for responsibility and genuine progress, the lawsuit argues. > “AI will quickly spin out of human control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol ... to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world’s most powerful ‘for profit’ technology companies,” said Nick Rowley, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs. -- I wish I had something more insightful to add, but I'm dumbstruck. May the holy market save us all (in the name of the dollar, the growth rate, and Jerome Powell, amen) | ||
| ▲ | datadrivenangel an hour ago | parent [-] | |
One of the lawyers here got put on probation a decade ago for dumping a client and saying: ""[P]laintiff’s opposition is absolutely untrue except that I am prejudiced against her. I despise her and would rather shovel manure than represent her at trial" | ||