• r00ty@kbin.life
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    1 day ago

    I never said it was. But, I’m also not an investor. I’m just saying the kind of things that scare off investors. And this would be a big one.

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        At this point, I think they believe it’s a good indicator of potential. A way of saying just how awesome and magical and powerful the AI is.

        Otherwise the “AI went off the rails and breached X companies servers” would also have been met with contempt and negatively impacted them.

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          23 hours ago

          I still can’t wrap my head around how this strategy (“buy our models, they are so powerful they might kill all humans”) would work in their favor, apart from one thing: restrictions would hurt Chinese models probably more than themselves. But I find it very unlikely that characters like Altman or Amodei would be capable of playing that kind of 4d chess. It’s a weird flex

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        22 hours ago

        No, but if you were an investor, would you invest in a product that would make it so people can easiy recreate your other products so that they stop buying your other products? Ending humanity doesn’t scare them but making $0.75 less this year does

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        20 hours ago

        Well, to be blunt, it depends. Would the eventual extermination of the human race cause them to lose money in the short term?