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Re:FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm by darklycan51 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:57PM (#36719316)
I think he just wanted to enact restrictions on further training of data models (maybe) and make it so that no one could compete with his company, can't see another explanation.
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Re:FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm by JeremyNT on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:58AM (#36725817)
It's easy to assume that people like Altman are playing 12-d chess here, but it's possible that he's just a run of the mill eccentric billionaire.

Maybe he really believes that he's the only person alive who can safely usher in a new AI godhead, and he feels this should be self-evident to everybody once he explains it to them.

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Re:FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm by tmaly on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:05PM (#36726724)
this is not really 12-d chess. He likely got advice from his largest investor on how DC works. Regulation forms a nice moat for first movers and existing players.

If you consider the leaked Google Engineer memo about open source models being a threat, regulation and LLM registration would be the strategy to construct a moat.

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