alt Hacker News> Yeah, this is anthropic advocating for a ban on open weight models.
This is an ungenerous take, and I think it's important to to recognize it's reasonable to support models that are both open and safe. How this would actually be achieved is unclear though. Dario is at least proposing a solution a solution, which is the model needs to pass safety testing. This is reasonable and I wouldn't conflate this with wanting to ban open weights.
I think the deeper problem might be though that once you have safe open-weight models, it will be much easier to make them unsafe. And to be specific, unsafe means proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons knowledge and similar information.
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> This is an ungenerous take
Why should I give a multi-billion dollar company advocating for new regulations in its industry a generous take?
I'd be similarly cynical if McDonald's proposed new health and safety regulations for restaurants.
> This is an ungenerous take
I think that's well earned.
> How this would actually be achieved is unclear though. Dario is at least proposing a solution a solution
How it would be achieved is a pretty important bit! One which Dario is not proposing any concrete solution for other thanks hand waves at some gov safety committee.
Would this restrict downloads of an open model, or publishing?
Say we ban domestic hosting un-approved open models. How does Dario propose to ban downloads from abroad? You can’t tell what an encrypted payload contains, do we need to restrict encryption?