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Ive been watching "AI in context" for a few weeks (they make long form biopic content on current state of AI - really good stuff).

This dropped today; it's about the wheeling and dealing behind closed doors at OpenAI re: Sam Altman''s firing. It's a lot more watchable than that sounds :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYTkvZqbnQ

The line that brought me to a stand still was "the future of AI depends on the moral compass of like 5 people".

I know we're all about local LLMs here...but it's sad to see yet another "Don't Be Evil" mission statement get swallowed up market forces. OpenAI was meant to bring balance to the Force, not leave it in ruins, and yet....

I think folks here (and Lemmy generally) are more savvy about AI then the gen pop....but even if you're training a nanoGPT model from scratch on hardware you own ...you're still beholden to outside forces. Eg: the people's champion - Qwen - seems to have split or gone closed weights for 3.7.

Things that make you go hmm.

Anyway...just signal boosting a cool video.

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Then why think things depend on the moral compass on some people if you think there is an unescapable dynamics that's at work?

I do think that open source community is winning that battle and it's an important battle and the ego of this five psychopath is kind of obscuring that huge victory that's won by hundreds, thousands of developers and researchers.

I don't think GLM or Anthropic or OpenAI are "guys", good or not. They are companies, you don't anthropomorphize these, they are beings that only crave for profit.

Actual people with actual morality are the people who are deciding to work there or to quit there. There's a reason why OpenAI is bleeding people. There's a reason why people like Le Can accepted to work for a company like Meta but imposed that they continue to publish.

The five people that this article mentions are the trees that hide the forest.

The inescapable mechanic is that the most egocentric people capture all the spotlight, almost by definition, but they are not AI, they are not the developers, they are not the researchers, they are not the people who innovate there. They are the people who take working efforts and turning into a soulless profit machine that often drives moral people away.

I wish we were less blind to the actual dynamics at play and were spending less time on people trying to get artificial spotlight.