I just had Claude go through it for me, so I could ask questions about it. We're in such a unique situation in the world now.

Trump may accidentally be the best thing that happened to Europe. (I think a lot of the Chinese give him credit, due to his behavior in his first term.)

Like, I think there have been attempts at this across the field. (I could be wrong!) But it requires a lot of labor and a lot of cross domain knowledge to complete. Both things that AI have.

I was excited to see what it would be. But I don't think I can argue that it makes as much sense anymore.

But I could imagine a scenario where you are required to release weights for publicly-used models after N years. Kinda like how drugs have a limited patent.

Not sure what N should be. But it would make for an interesting rule.

I think there are any number of reasons a "safety" person could be concerned about any state of the art models. And so I would expect at least one of those to apply to any model.

The question then is: do we stop when the safety people say to (they will) or not?

First: if they are unilaterally doing it: what about their competitors? Is this a chance for OpenAI to pass them? Or China? If either did, would that be a net-benefit for them or the world?

Maybe this is a ploy for "regulatory capture". And that might help them in the short term. But the rest of the world will continue on. Honestly, it isn't clear to me right now if the winning strategy has as much to do with being the smartest company or simply the one that can command the most compute.

If Anthropic fumbles their IPO and OpenAI scoops them, I don't think I will be happy.

OpenAI’s behavior here — even if you only consider [their] side of the story — was (at best) in bad taste.

If I needed to get my story straight, well, it might take a little time and coordination…

As a former Googler, I wouldn't at all be surprised if this is an integration that is "planned" -- but just not done yet.

And some good handful of people are planning to wring a promo out of work. "Implemented weather UI in Android that is 63% more accurate." ;)

But I think the effect will be that the companies building them will "sweeten" the deal for the local towns where they are building -- probably by way of taxes. And while that will be a drag on their development (by adding costs), the scale won't be bad enough to really hurt.

And in that sense, everyone wins. The locales will be happy to have the extra resources. And the ones that don't take the "bribe" -- or whatever you want to call it -- won't get datacenters.

(But I do agree that panic is overblown and counterproductive.)

But I find myself a bit skeptical. Would love to see some long-term third party testing on it.

If you wanted to build a website right now, why would you hand-code an ugly version when you could get an LLM to do it quickly, cheaply and have it much better looking?

Like you could imagine getting your RSS feed in your G+ stream. If you didn’t want any social stuff you could just use it as a reader. But it would also give you an easy way to share stuff from your feed. And it might have been useful for those providing RSS feeds to interact more with their readers (if they chose to.)

I think it would have been an interesting way to bootstrap things.