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Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He’s Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It
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Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He’s Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It

The reaction to Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500 word AI manifesto, "The Future is for Everyone," has been all over the map. Given the messenger and the topic, there's plenty of reasonable skepticism. 404 Media called it "deranged." TechCrunch pointed out that Zuck's manifesto is "exactly why people don't like AI." But then you have groups like...

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Aug 12
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Trump’s AI Framework Is So Bad They Won’t Show You What’s In It
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Trump’s AI Framework Is So Bad They Won’t Show You What’s In It

For a while now we've been mocking the Trump White House's plans for an "AI framework" that would have the frontier AI labs hand over their top models for an initial review. After all, this was more or less the exact same plan that the Biden admin worked out in 2023, but it was done...

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Aug 6
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Anthropic Says It’s Against A Ban On Open Weight Models. It Just Wants To Ban Everything That Makes Them Good.
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Anthropic Says It’s Against A Ban On Open Weight Models. It Just Wants To Ban Everything That Makes Them Good.

Just recently Karl warned that we were going to see some absolute nonsense as the US sought to somehow "ban" Chinese AI models from being used in the US. That seems to already be happening. It kicked off with talk that the US might "fight Chinese AI" using nearly identical arguments to what was used...

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Jul 29
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The fight over downloadable AI is not really about a ban
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The fight over downloadable AI is not really about a ban

Companies want access, Anthropic wants testing, and Washington and Beijing are arguing over alleged copying.

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Jul 28
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