@dnapway: David Sacks explains the step by step playbook for banning open source models "An open source ban is coming. They're no…
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David Sacks explains a hypothetical regulatory playbook that could lead to the de facto banning of open source AI models by applying uniform standards that ignore technological differences between open and closed systems.
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David Sacks explains the step by step playbook for banning open source models
“An open source ban is coming. They’re not going to call it that. They’re going to say that we simply have to apply the same standards to open models that we apply to closed.”
“Here’s how they do it step by step. Let me explain how regulatory capture actually works.”
“Dario wants an FDA for AI. But he doesn’t have enough political support for that. So instead, they do this Trojan horse of a FINRA for AI. They call it self-regulating. It’s not really, but anyway, that gets them off the ground.”
“Now they’ve created the standard setting organization. Now they’ve got pre-release model testing. Then the pressure grows to codify that in law. And then what they do is they say, look, all these standards need to apply equally to all models.”
“But here’s the problem with that. Open models and closed models, as you know, are technologically different.”
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