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No one was calling for a government monopoly, all they called for was a testing process to ensure that frontier LLMs specifically were safe to release into the wild.

To the tech-libertarian crowd on HN this is the definition of evil. To everyone else it's responsible behavior and common sense.



> No one was calling for a government monopoly, all they called for was a testing process to ensure that frontier LLMs specifically were safe to release into the wild

Yes, from chatgpt 0.1 onwards. Everything has been a dangerous frontier model and has threatened humanity with extinction before.


The main risks called out with GPT-2 were disinformation and phishing, which did indeed come to pass.


Are you sure it matters what this weeks Anthropic and OpenAI threat is?




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