rzerowan
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This however goes beyonnd that as its been written to be as vaguely worded and anbigously as to spread the maximum amount of FUD, catching in its net even a locally running DS llm or any 'derivatives' i take that to mean any quantized/distilled models even touching on DS.
This is basically the same play that was done in regards to Huawei , next step as was in that case would be the US gov going around the planet and intimidating other govs to drop DS. THen tack the same allegations to the rest of the Chinese OS models , rinse and repeat.
With OSS locally hosted models the anology is more akin to the Hallowee Documents by Microsoft from the 90-20's in regard to linux and attempts to kneecap its spread.
From a historical eye looking back the 'Dark' ages in europe coincides with the Islamic 'Golden' age and the eventual convergence led to the Enlightenment , when tose ideas that had been verboten in europe worked on it the rest of the world as far as China were reintroduced and sparked a new cycle of learning.
Similarly i see especially in the US dominated block netering into a partial Dark - with researchers taking extra pains to hold their research/data closer lest it be scooped and credit/funds/accolades go a brute force LLM run by a competitor.The few that would still publish openly will be the candles holding the ideals of open source collaboration AND communication.
At this point in time it seems to me that the China affiliated labs and orgs are more open in diffusing the knowhow , and coincidentally the society does not appear as anxiety ridden regarding the advent of LL tools.Maybe due to the established Shenzen mindset where everyone copies/learns from everyone else and the only thing that clears is the speed of execution.
In any case probably a convergence back to a equilibrium and a second Enlightenment after a generation.
It kinda reminds me of the story of the Toyota process , while their car product lines were/are heavily automated the process still relies on the smalll teams on the line to spot/solve and iterarte over mistakes/inefficiences then add the refinements back onto the automated tasks.
Similarly althose stories of radilogists going jobless have not panned out , as interpreting slieds is a 'task' that a radiologist does.
Semantics , yeah but it does shape the way of thinkings regarding jobs/economy and not to mention the whole anthropomorphizing by the AI labs and boosters. In essence the wordings can/could introduce a healthy dose of reality/skepticism to the wildest predictions regarding job losses etc.
unless theres any report to the contrary , this seems to be what their security is like.As i mentioned either deliberately negligent or incompetent on their part.
[1] https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-agents-get-requests-usemo...
Additionally apparently there was no monitoring of outgoing traffic?
These are all pretty standard hardening processes for any Ops team , harden the environment and if no external access is required setup a segragetad VLAN which basically denies any attempt to 'break out' to any other network space.
Still on the security environment , outgoing trafic is usually monitored with alerts to prevent data exfiltration from hacks/rogue workers etc .
Robust systems will immediately catch a supposedly sandboxed piece of code making 10s of calls to the internet where none should be available and any monitoring dashboard would be lighting up like a christmas tree.
Again no external audit of their environment, prompts or 'sandbox' is available so were all speculating here.However imho their 'controls' seem lackluster at best , nonexistent and negligent at worst.
So bottom line a proof of concept for DARPA funds and eventual inegration into the military command and control nodes.
Though having a person interpretingthe degradation progress and relaying it to the rest of the team could be a usable scene.
"Using Orwell's works to make generalised attacks on the left is problematic, even for the two novels championed thus - while Animal Farm is very clearly a deserved satire on the Soviet Union, its greatest criticism of the Russian leaders is that they sold out socialist principle to accommodate themselves with capitalist countries ("The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.");"[1]
Obviously once a work is in the public’s hands , interpretations may supersede even the authors original themes.Leaving it as a matter of interpretation/comprehension and generally accepted consensus. Incidentally a good measure of reading comprehension and analysis for the students studying he text.
[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/orwell/1945/preface.htm
So basically a oral pop quiz for math. i think could work well to complement homeworks by making sure the material as taught is actually inside the students heads.