I'm not saying they shouldn't cap their products. But they shouldn't do it behind the customer's back. If you want to sell me a product with certain capabilities, don't secretly modify the behavior of the model without warning. You cannot be a seller of a technology that you later censor…
REGULATION
-

AI dominance by few labs and technological race for safety criticized
By
–
Surely one or two labs should not dominate AI. It also shouldn’t be a technological race to decide who gets to keep the world safe (or not).
-
Visible cyber/bio refusals vs invisible frontier LLM refusals
By
–
Those were the visible refusals for cyber/bio/etc – it was just the refusals for "frontier LLM development" that were deliberately made invisible
-

Pause on AI now considered by all three leading labs
By
–


What did they see? A pause used to be at the edge of the overton window. Now it's being considered by 3 out of the 3 leading labs.
-
Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI
By
–
and see https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/maybe-section-230-doesnt-shield-ai?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
… -
Gary Marcus: Section 230 may not shield AI companies
By
–
Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies after all. That would be huge. https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/maybe-section-230-doesnt-shield-ai?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
… Link below. With a callout to @rcalo
. -
Gary Marcus questions Section 230 shield for AI
By
–
the substack: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/maybe-section-230-doesnt-shield-ai?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
… -
Europe deprived of Apple’s latest AI: second-class citizens
By
–
Europe has achieved a new feat: being the only continent deprived of Apple's latest AI. Strange way to protect citizens by turning them into second-class digital citizens. Building walls rather than conquering the world…
-

Dario Amodei warns about AI exponential in candid essay
By
–

Dario Amodei just published an unusually candid essay about where AI is heading. The tl;dr with quotes. His new piece, Policy on the AI Exponential, reads more like a warning from the person building the thing. The core problem is timing. AI moves on an exponential. He is very
-
German court ruling holds LLM companies liable for false claims
By
–
If the new German court decision — to hold LLM companies liable for the false claims their LLMs made — become universal, effectively sidelining generative AI until better techniques came along, would you be happy, sad, or indifferent?