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A short note for Civil Society on the inadvisability of Government regulation & restriction of #LLM and #AI — #OpenSource #FreeSpeech #CodeIsSpeech – dropsafe
2023-06-08 08:41:45+00:00
So there’s an interesting Reddit post which leads to an article on VentureBeat and a letter from a Senator to Mark Zuckerberg, all attached below.
There’s a fairly straightforward point which needs to be made:
indicative comment from the Reddit thread
Like it or not, Code and Data are forms of speech; yes they can be made to “do things” or they can “describe things” but that doesn’t make them any less “speech”, instead it makes them more-something-else-too. LLM data, is data like everything else. Just as Firefox will not function without configuration files, so goes LLaMa. If the Government is encouraged to suppress general access to code, it will attempt to do so; and then the suppressions will fail several years, perhaps a few decades, later. This is what happened with Cryptographic Export Controls, too. In the face of suppression, open-source developers will hoard the extant code, and build upon it, thereby sedimenting all the bias and other undesirable attributes which the extant code holds. So if you want a kinder, gentler AI in deployment, you need to encourage open development and collaboration so that hoarding is undesirable, and so that developers can freely track all the developments which make AI better. In short: involving the Government will be counterproductive.
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