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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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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

Well - yes - I should maybe stipulate competitive hierarchy.

Though I would tend to argue that hereditary hierarchy is relatively likely to go the same way, if for different reasons. The problem there isn't that sociopaths and psychopaths win, since there is no competition forcthem to win.. Instead the problem is that they're bred by drawing from a pool that's provileged and shielded from harsh realities and eventually entirely lises touch with thecrest of humanity.

If I had my way about it, we'd have Athenian democracy starting this very moment. Even with the very real threat of poor choices being made by random assortments of assholes, idiots and lunatics, it still could not possibly be worse than government by people eager to sell their influence and people eager to buy it.