@milesdeutscher But think of the trillions the tech oligarchs will add to their market caps using their exclusive access, and the panopticon surveillance grid the Government will be able to build.
AI folx are so pessimistic, never looking on the bright side.
@romanhelmetguy We don't need small minded ideas like this. You need to think bigger, the buildings should be seized and given to the homeless and drug addicts.
It won't stay like that for long, just like Glasswing more and more oligarch companies will be added, and some of these companies spend -hundreds of millions- on tokens. Then like I said, it finally gets released to the public, and this insider group gets access to the next level of intelligence.
They make massive money on the corporate partners who are paying premium API usage. It's not permanent, they eventually provide access to the plebs but that 3-6 month gap where a select few have extra capability are enough to cement the underclass. These tech oligarchs will systematically destroy all competitors and wipe out all startups with this lead, which will be perpetual in the sense that when you're getting access to the Mythos, they're already getting access to the new Mythos++. A small oligarchy class will have a constant lead on the plebs.
Imagine you want to start a new AI company to develop frontier models. You spend billions. You succeed. You have a new SOTA model to release. But you're not allowed. This regulation has just made it impossible for any competitors in the space unless they're already trillion dollar companies who can afford to have their only product locked up for months or forever.
@MatthewBerman@AlThingsF1nanc3 Ya they're cementing a permanent underclass, and the precedent is set. A handful of top tech companies (and gov) will have months of frontier access before the underclass, cementing their lead, and wiping out all small competition. The dystopia we're headed for will be total.
I think very intentional (they may attempt PR and call it a "bug" later after they've caused a ton of upgrades). It all started after Fable left, they probably saw usage spike after the Fable release initially took users away, and then they start ratcheting down to get people to upgrade after it left and usage returned. They need quick upgrades because if Fable returns people likely won't upgrade, and they also know their own timelines for any Fable rival. When dealing with huge numbers of users (100s of millions) you move the new needle a few percent and you've generated hundreds of millions potentially billions in revenue. They would be almost negligent as a company if they -were not- doing this.
The worst part is that they can literally use their own AI to determine the exact amount of pain needed to push someone higher. Especially if someone appears to ONLY be using openai, they don't have an alternative so you can apply more pressure to those people to upgrade. Without a doubt they're testing probably dozens of variations of this pain-to-conversion pipeline.
I do believe that like all AB testing systems, its probably not applied equally to all users, but different segments based on their usage history and the likelihood of causing an upgrade.