What specifically is smarmy and weird? Sounds like your own hot take with zero analysis.
They’re limiting frontier model development speed. Others are too. Pacing is the only word here to criticize, and I think it’s fine given the limiting of speed but also increased oversight. I’m not saying they’re fully doing this, but the term is fine.
Do you have a better proposed phrase?
“… since we called for a slowdown in AI research”
But stating it plainly like this would make the contradiction too obvious.
I thought pacing is just walking back and forth? So pacing the frontier would be like staying in the same place instead of making progress