Re:OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once
by lolinder on Thursday September 26, 2024 @03:51PM
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> we know anything less capable is fine, focus your attention on us and make sure what we do is safe
This is a form of regulatory capture. You get a lead against your competition and then persuade governments to make it hard for people to follow you by imposing rules and regulations.
Regulatory capture is used in this way to build moats.
Re:OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once
by ben_w on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:09PM
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> This is a form of regulatory capture. You get a lead against your competition and then persuade governments to make it hard for people to follow you by imposing rules and regulations.
They were not making it hard to follow them. That's the point. They were saying they themselves don't really know what they're doing, while saying open source should be protected from any regulations imposed on them.
Hard to go past them, perhaps; but even then, given the scale of compute for training bigger models, the only people who could even try would have an easy time following whatever rules are created.
What's changed very recently, which is a moat and which they may or may not get, is seven 5 GW data centres — the equivalent of "can we tile half of Rhode Island in PV?"