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Supposedly the change of heart came after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally," the Huggingface escape. To me it sounds like he's worried about the competition breathing down his neck and wants someone to come in and call a time-out.

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 58 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Every "Sam Altman said..." headline can be summed up as:

"Manipulative liar says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear."

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 2 points 36 minutes ago

"Tech crypto grifter says thing to grift people with crypto, tech or both. More at 11"

Although i cant imagin any sign of a pullback would be good for any of the companies in the AI bubble. While probably not important on the specifics of what he is saying it is a "we should slow down" which the market aint gonna like. No breaks on this gravy train Sammy boy!

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 1 points 2 minutes ago

We need to scale AI development!

Openweight models start growing

No, not like that!

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Likely translation: scaling their models is hitting diminishing returns, while the business world is slowly realizing the math ain't mathing and they're not suddenly 10x more efficient and profitable than before LLM adoption.

So Sammy and the others need a plausible cover story why capabilities aren't evolving at break neck speed anymore, to prevent their beautiful bubbly bubble from crashing down on them

[–] artifex@piefed.social 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Let's hope they get the Enron treatment for their actions

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm thinking more French revolution treatment.

Exactly. Who tf actually believes this crap?

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Feds made them be the fall guy though. Data centers are new infrastructure for the government to use. That's the main reason for all this ai bullshit. Chapgpt and this consumer grade bullshit is the unplugged video game controller they gave us to makes us feel special and a part of something while THEY play "The Game".

An expansion of the above; https://reddthat.com/comment/28125951

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 24 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] artifex@piefed.social 10 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, we've definitely been seeing diminishing returns with the latest frontier models. I think that's why when GLM and Kimi come in at 1/5 the price of Opus but are just as good, or when Deepseek comes in at 1/10 the price and is catching up quickly, they have to worry. There may be nowhere for them to go.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'd like to hit his head against a wall, multiple times.

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 18 points 1 hour ago

Stop paying attention to this lying fuckwad.