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techni_24 t1_jc9fmps wrote

Reply to comment by EmbarrassedHelp in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

Idk if those excuses of safety are really so fake. These models are pretty powerful and about to change a lot very quickly. Instead of dumping all the information about it, I’d rather them take a cautious approach.

We need to remember that there are plenty of bad actors out there that would love to use the power of these models to do some really bad things we can hardly conceptualize yet. ‘Democratizing AI’ sounds great in theory, but lets remember that the larger threat for humanity is not AI itself but how it’s used and who wields it. Making that capability open source might just do more harm than good. They might have picked up on that based on how scarce the paper is regarding details.

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LaJolla86 t1_jc9kbvv wrote

Meh. People who want to run their own version will do so anyways.

I never found the argument convincing.

It just makes the best parts of the technology locked up behind the technical know how. And the cost of hardware (which you could rent out).

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ACCount82 t1_jcav54f wrote

It's a tough spot. GPT-4 is clearly no Skynet - but it's advanced enough to be an incredibly powerful tool, in the right hands. An incredibly dangerous tool, in the wrong hands.

Being able to generate incredibly realistic text that takes image and text context into account is a trust-destoying tech, if used wrong. Reviews, comments, messages? All those things we expect to be written by humans? They may no longer be. A single organization with an agenda to push can generate thousands of "convincing" users and manufacture whatever consensus it wants.

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seweso t1_jc9u8eq wrote

What they are doing isn't far ahead of what is already in the open. Their performance can be easily be explained by quality data + shitton of gpus and good controls (to prevent weird shit).

The more logical explanation is that they wanna sell this as soon as possible before it's in the open.

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fokac93 t1_jcd7a8p wrote

Agree 100%...People on the internet seem to forget as you said that there are bad actors out there. Some people have to come down to earth and understand reality. At this point those AI model have to be treated as nuclear secrets. They're not perfect, but very powerful. Just imagine chatgpt 20 or 50. I just saw the demo of. Chatgpt4 yesterday and I was blown away.

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