Can’t they physically air gap the frontier model training environment? I don’t see that mentioned in the post, but I didn’t read all of it.

If not, why?

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paxy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't see how that's possible given they're likely training on multiple data centers' worth of GPUs scattered around the world. So you still need to get updated training data, software upgrades and everything else onto those machines. And then get the finished product out. And with iteration speeds in AI it likely needs to happen on a daily basis or multiple times a day.

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betterunix2 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

> training on multiple data centers' worth of GPUs scattered around the world

...so stop scattering things across many data centers.

> iteration speeds

Which can be slowed down for the sake of not breaking the law.

> it likely needs to happen on a daily basis or multiple times a day.

Keep it inside the airgap until you are ready to move the model into production. What's the problem here?

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paxy 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

So we just need to build the biggest datacenter in the world in downtown San Francisco. Problem solved!

	▲	betterunix2 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Or lay a cable to wherever the data center can reasonably be built? A leased line would be an acceptable way to do this, given that the endpoints do not really have any way directly to interact with the service provider network. It is not as though this is some uniquely difficult problem, it is just a question of putting in the effort.

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wmf an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

“Completely air-gapping this infrastructure—that is, disconnecting it entirely from external networks—isn’t currently feasible, since we need external connections in order to run and monitor experiments”