<story><title>Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-ceo-tells-us-house-open-source-ai-is-extremely-aligned-with-american-interests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>Yeah, this is a perfect microcosm of how &amp;quot;the system&amp;quot; works. This guy is right! He just got there too late, with too little money and not enough fanfare.&lt;p&gt;Sam Altman, on the other hand? He&amp;#x27;s the figurehead of a consumer-facing product with a brilliant marketing team and probably a crack team of lobbyists to boot. He&amp;#x27;s got billions of dollars in Microsoft funding and a product you can go use for free. All he&amp;#x27;s got to do is roll in there first with an AI alarmist response and convince lawmakers the state-of-the-art is dangerous. After all, OpenAI is synonymous with SOTA, right? So we follow the industry leaders, without really looking where they&amp;#x27;re headed. And now we end up here.&lt;p&gt;Oh how I wish Open Source software was fairly represented in court. But ideas don&amp;#x27;t pay for themselves, and money talks &lt;i&gt;awful&lt;/i&gt; loud...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jazzyjackson</author><text>&amp;gt; All he&amp;#x27;s got to do is roll in there first with an AI alarmist response and convince lawmakers the state-of-the-art is dangerous.&lt;p&gt;Mr Altman didn&amp;#x27;t go before congress to convince them of anything, he was invited by Blumenthal to make their case to the media. Congress is embarrassed that social media got out of hand and is chomping at the bit to regulate AI. There was no disagreement at the testimony, the intentions of government and industry are aligned perfectly here - roll out the red carpet for centralized control, regulate competition out of existence.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-ceo-tells-us-house-open-source-ai-is-extremely-aligned-with-american-interests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>Yeah, this is a perfect microcosm of how &amp;quot;the system&amp;quot; works. This guy is right! He just got there too late, with too little money and not enough fanfare.&lt;p&gt;Sam Altman, on the other hand? He&amp;#x27;s the figurehead of a consumer-facing product with a brilliant marketing team and probably a crack team of lobbyists to boot. He&amp;#x27;s got billions of dollars in Microsoft funding and a product you can go use for free. All he&amp;#x27;s got to do is roll in there first with an AI alarmist response and convince lawmakers the state-of-the-art is dangerous. After all, OpenAI is synonymous with SOTA, right? So we follow the industry leaders, without really looking where they&amp;#x27;re headed. And now we end up here.&lt;p&gt;Oh how I wish Open Source software was fairly represented in court. But ideas don&amp;#x27;t pay for themselves, and money talks &lt;i&gt;awful&lt;/i&gt; loud...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstarfish</author><text>The government&amp;#x27;s interests are going to align more with OpenAI&amp;#x27;s, and they would be fools &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to eliminate open source&amp;#x2F;local models.&lt;p&gt;Anything local bypasses traversal of any network edges they can tap and monitor. Anything you ask Google is logged, and your search history can be subpoenaed, same as with any public library and the books you check out. OpenAI or whatever gatekeeper would assume that role and charge tolls.&lt;p&gt;Do the same research with Vicuna-13B-ggml or whatever and nobody can sniff out what you&amp;#x27;re doing. Which sounds great for people who just want to jerk off and be left alone, but has terrifying implications for anybody tasked with stopping more-malicious users.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately nobody can ever compromise on these things. Best case would be adopting a law like the recent one in NL, where given probable cause the government can hack into your machine, but that won&amp;#x27;t happen. The only alternative in their favor is banning local models and open-source development of them altogether.</text></comment>