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California legislature passes controversial “kill switch” AI safety bill (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 60 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

But in a separate Fortune editorial from earlier this month, Stanford computer science professor and AI expert Fei-Fei Liargued that the "well-meaning" legislation will "have significant unintended consequences, not just for California but for the entire country."

The bill's imposition of liability for the original developer of any modified model will "force developers to pull back and act defensively," Li argued. This will limit the open-source sharing of AI weights and models, which will have a significant impact on academic research, she wrote.

Holy shit this is a fucking terrible idea.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I read that as "incentivizing keeping AI in labs and out of the hands of people who shouldn't be using it".

That said, you'd think they would learn by now from Piracy: once it's out there, it's out there. Can't put it back in the jar.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They should be doing the exact opposite and making it incredibly difficult not to open source it. Major platforms open sourcing much of their systems is basically the only good part of the AI space.

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also, they used our general knowledge and culture to train the damn things. They should be open sourced for that reason alone. Llms should be seen and treated like libraries, as collections of our common intellect, accessible by everyone.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Damn straight. I don't fear AI, I fear an even more uneven playing field

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not open-sourcing it is a terrible idea, it just creates more black boxes and gives corporations a further upper hand.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah what do I care if Jimmy down the street enjoys using his Ollama chatbot? I'm too busy worrying about Terminator panning out

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly, so you agree that this bill is shit?

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, but apparently that didn't come across according to the votes lol

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I haven’t yet read Li’s editorial, but I’m generally more inclined to trust her take on these issues than Hinton and Bengio’s.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Same energy as PirateSoftware's "If AAA companies can't kill games due to always online DRM then small indie devs have to support their games forever, thus bankrupting them" argument.