[naillo]

They're amusing but they're definitely dangerous to the potential of AI in the medium term. People like to say that "these things will happen anyway" even if it's made illegal, but there's no way 250 million will be invested into a company to develop LLMs if they're made illegal or heavily regulated. ML is resource intensive as it is (in terms of number of PhDs required and compute) and if the decels and censors have their way they definitely can make a dent in progress (i.e. "it'll happen anyway" isn't true, or it'll be slowed down so much nothing interesting will happen within our lifetimes).

[matheusmoreira]

We shouldn't need corporations for this anyway. Why can't we decentralize training? Model training à la folding@home.

[nvm0n2]

Training needs insane amounts of inter node bandwidth, to the extent that training clusters use specially built hardware for it. Decentralised training isn't physically possible anytime soon, maybe never.

[jddj]

The philosophical arguments are definitely real and valid, but I still find the clans and labels funny.

[emikulic]

It's over for decels.

[polski-g]

If that company moved to the US, their model could never be regulated because of Bernstein v DOJ.