Also I guess that current proposals would benefit openAI, google DeepMind and Anthropic. If there becomes a need to register large training runs, they have more money and infrastructure and smaller orgs would need to build that if they wanted to compete. It just probably would benefit them.
As you say, I think that its wrong to say this is their primary aim (which other CEOs would say there products might kill us all to achieve regulatory capture?) but there is real benefit.
Only to the extent that smaller orgs need to carry out these kind of large training runs, right? If we take the ‘Pause Letter’ as an example, then the regulatory burden would only really affect the major players and (presumably) hamper their efforts, as they have to expend energy to be in compliance with those regulations rather than adding that energy to their development efforts. Meanwhile, smaller orgs could grow without interference up to and until they approach the level of needing to train a model larger or more complex than GPT-4. I’m not saying that the proposals can’t benefit the major players or won’t at the expense of smaller ones, but I don’t think it’s obvious or guaranteed.
Also I guess that current proposals would benefit openAI, google DeepMind and Anthropic. If there becomes a need to register large training runs, they have more money and infrastructure and smaller orgs would need to build that if they wanted to compete. It just probably would benefit them.
As you say, I think that its wrong to say this is their primary aim (which other CEOs would say there products might kill us all to achieve regulatory capture?) but there is real benefit.
Only to the extent that smaller orgs need to carry out these kind of large training runs, right? If we take the ‘Pause Letter’ as an example, then the regulatory burden would only really affect the major players and (presumably) hamper their efforts, as they have to expend energy to be in compliance with those regulations rather than adding that energy to their development efforts. Meanwhile, smaller orgs could grow without interference up to and until they approach the level of needing to train a model larger or more complex than GPT-4. I’m not saying that the proposals can’t benefit the major players or won’t at the expense of smaller ones, but I don’t think it’s obvious or guaranteed.