Notice congress isn't talking about the topic of the year, AI?
There's talk of AI replacing Hollywood writers. By the end of this decade AI will be able to read through whole bills and make ethical evaluations. It could literally make politicians outdated. Why are they not discussing this?
There was a senate hearing about it just the other day. Keep in mind they asked Sam Altman (of OpenAI) to appear who has a financial incentive to push back against open source development as it's competition and has been seen by various as wanting to 'lock in' their existing position by influencing regulation on smaller players.
When a senator asked how power wouldn't be concentrated in the few largest companies in the space, instead of mentioning the democratization of open source he went on to point to how his company has allowed democratization of AI (despite most of it being closed source and commercial).
His company co-authored a paper a few months back proposing measures like government restriction of sales of GPU hardware to consumers, restricted access to models and for users have a form of human ID to post generated content on social media—ostensibly to fight disinformation but conveniently would stifle open source developments which compete with their offerings. They amusingly cite a joke 4chan-trained text model a Youtuber made and used exclusively on 4chan for a few days as a bot as an example of non-theoretical 'influence operations'.
An alleged Google internal report leaked recently which is in line with the largest players' concerns that the open source community is progressing at a much more rapid pace than their timelines, while also being more agile since new developments have meant large trained models (which are very expensive to produce, meaning only the most well-funded could make them) are not always as relevant since smaller standalone and/or supplementary models can be made by the community and tailored to specific needs.
As for text models' use in government Congress already approved licenses of ChatGPT for '
creating and summarizing' content.
