@mark_k Matter of fact, Trump during a recent press conference maybe around a month ago (May) said that he wasn’t going to take this route, but clearly he was being disingenuous with that statement.
@mark_k This is from May. It is not new information that Trump was considering doing this. You’re being disingenuous blaming this entirely on Dario. Good way to give the government a pass on acting on bad will.
For the people saying this is a pause, or a victory for safety, it is not. This does not slow development in any way, it only slows the rate at which the labs can 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 models, not how fast they can train them. The gap between what is available to the public, and what the labs have internally, will steadily widen from this day forward. This actually makes no one happy. The old 'AGI has been developed internally' joke will absolutely come true now though, long before it is available to the public.
The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.
New w/ @leomschwartz@amir:
The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.
On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach.
@justalexoki Bro you’ve been on twitter for two years and have ninety four thousand posts. You’re definitely not fulfilling your biological purpose either 💀