Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI

Re:Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-e... by roenxi on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:25AM (#39010089)

There are many types of safety. For example, protecting your profits! I'd imagine that if we trace the money back these organisations will look a lot like lobbyists for existing companies in the AI space. I recall Microsoft's licence enforcement effort was done with that sort of scheme, I think they used the BSA [0]. It has been a while though so maybe it was a different group.

Anyway, point being, if they can lobby for something unpopular under a different brand, that is how to do it. Much less PR risk.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Alliance

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Re:Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-e... by Xelynega on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:17PM (#39016598)

I have to believe this is the case.

The vast majority of "ai safety" news I see is about some dumb shit someone is getting called out for supporting and the responses are always "ai safety is such a joke since they focus on these issues instead of real issues".

Who does this benefit to have the "popular ai safety" news/people be ridiculous? It's not furthering the issues people seem to care about, but it does give a bunch of ammunition for Microsoft/openai/etc. fans to use to shutdown any discussion of AI safety issues.

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