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I'm moving from "Anthropic could be nationalized" to "Anthropic should be nationalized." Be it malice or incompetence, they are generating chaos for no good reason, and seem clueless as to how and why this is happening to them. This organization can't be trusted with ASI.
Jun 13
Parsing this evening's events:
- The U.S. government approved the release of Fable 5 to the public, clearly under the presumption that the model's cybersecurity capabilities cannot be accessed by hackers, authoritarian regimes, etc.
- Recently (today?), "another company" showed the U.S. government that a jailbreak of Fable 5 *is possible*. Yes, a minor jailbreak - but how can a non-technical government official be assured that there aren't also other, more dangerous, jailbreaks in this model that won't be discovered by the CCP?
- Anthropic states, completely correctly, that: "We suspect that perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently possible for any model provider. Every safeguard used in the industry is vulnerable to non-universal jailbreaks (which can elicit some cyber information in specific circumstances), and it is likely that universal jailbreaks will eventually be found in the future. We stated this clearly when we released Fable 5."
- My best guess is that the U.S. government did not fully realize this at the time when the release of Fable 5 was approved.
- Per Axios, the government contacted Anthropic and asked to "pause releasing the... models but was unsuccessful" - i.e., Anthropic told the government to pound sand.
- Per Axios, this "prompt[ed] the export control letter".
- Per Axios, the U.S. government is *NOT* looking to restrict access to Fable to U.S. nationals forever. "The model needs to remain locked down until the U.S. governent's national security apparatus is hardened", which "could happen in a few weeks".
- I interpret Anthropic's reaction as challenging the government: "we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles."
If the Axios article is correct, I do not think any other model providers have anything to fear based solely on this evening's events, because: (1) they would hopefully be smarter than downright rejecting a request by the U.S. government to pause releasing a model, and (2) they will be required anyway under the recent executive order to give the U.S. government at least 30 days to test the model for cybersecurity capabilities - during which time the U.S. government would also be able to shore up its own cybersecurity defenses with the same model.
I remain extremely concerned that actions by one particular U.S. lab over the last few months might be moving us closer and closer to the scenario where at least that lab - and potentially all others - will be nationalized.
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1. if transacting with superintelligent models outside of the boundaries of a lab becomes difficult due to national security / ai safety concerns and so on, it will mean the Coasean boundaries of the labs will grow to encompass all interesting industry, creating a truly cyberpunk chaebol-capitalism type of future, where the goverment sort of runs them but they also sort of run the government
2. as if there weren't already enough reasons to break up your family, leave your home, the Zone of Thought will increase the attractiveness of migrating to try and have your child on american soil, so they can have 1000x the effective brain power of people born elsewhere
3. every country should probably try and either work towards a new ai security pact with the americans immediately or pool every ounce of national resources to try and create their own ASI labs lest you become complete intellectual, economic, and moral vassals to the united states of america and the output byproducts its ASIs (you wont even get to talk to them). if they succeeded (big if) this will imply a more global race and more risk factors than was previously implied by the formerly only "beating china" narrative -- but many will prefer it to the superintelligent monopolar value lock-in
4. the other alternative is to keep the tension between safety and concentration of power at the top of mind and for the government/labs to push for solving it, rather than instrumentalizing all other values to be subservient to minimizing ai harms. insofar as safety means defending properties of the fragile world we like, the diffuse nature of power is one of those properties
5. historically the americans have been really quite Benign about their global public goods hegemony despite the ability to extract significantly more rents than they do, and it makes it easy for people of all stripes to fight for america rather than under it. we probably don't have to, but i hope america overall works towards export promotion of american models rather than export control
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And they said an American World Cup would be a disaster
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@johnway retweeted
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Any oomfs/ pro gamers out there who have experience designing
1) business cards
2) physical QR code stands?
- like “rate us on trip advisor” @ hotels?
in general, ANY great designers interested in helping w/ above?
Plan: gonna go door to door to every cafe in my country onboarding them onto this
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Even if you DO NOT CARE a SINGLE bit about coffee, cafes, or meeting new people
This app is a total JOY to use
Yuh yuh
Monomaniac for the little details
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@johnway retweeted
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Even if you DO NOT CARE a SINGLE bit about coffee, cafes, or meeting new people
This app is a total JOY to use
Yuh yuh
Monomaniac for the little details
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お願いします！ご存じの通りぼくたち日本は51番目の州です！連邦政府万歳！米帝最高！No Taxation Without Representation！Fable 5のためならボストン湾にいくらでも紅茶を捨てますから許して😭😭😭
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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The man worried about losing is not thinking enough about winning.
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when they ban Fable but the World Cup is on:
MFW they banned Fable and Mythos but I'm just a dumb himbo with simple needs that are well met by sub-frontier models.
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Maybe the Fable 5 ban will be resolved and it's all a big misunderstanding, but "assume people will always disappoint you" has been a useful heuristic since 2020.
If the US maintains the export control ban on Fable/Mythos, it will likely extend it to any other frontier labs that develop similar models (OpenAI basically).
If this happens, Chinese labs are absolutely guaranteed to exceed US labs before the end of the year.
The differential factor in this outcome is that the Chinese government is more competent, especially on technical issues, so their models will still be open-source after they use them to plug all their cybersecurity holes. Essentially, they will execute their version of Project Glasswing faster and more successfully.
Today has certainly been an exciting day.
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I think the UK should have several dozen planning meetings and get consultants in, maybe have a few arguments in PMQs, spend maybe 100mil on survey work, and then not bother.
Jun 13
britain needs its own competitive sovereign ai if access to frontier models can just be turned off like this.
starmer clearly isn’t in trump’s good books, so there will be no special exception for britain.
we need to take ai far more seriously and start building again in the country where it all began.
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Trump seen this and spammed the ban button
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a) America cuts off AGI to rest-of-world
b) China does not, sells intelligence to everyone at market price
result: China wins, America sort of loses, Europe definitely loses but at least we have great PTO
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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a reminder to myself that blas' biggest competitor is an app that has been "crowdfunding" for several months, has not released anything and not close to releasing, and is an irish language app that's all green and has that middle-ages font that game of thrones uses.
meanwhile i am free, have been out for nearly 4 months, have all of the celtic languages added, and will be adding native speaker voices and dialects in the coming week or two. with some other cool language orientated projects coming over the month.
you can very very easily be faster and better and cheaper than your competition by deciding you want to be.
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