Some potential compromises ⟡
-legacy surcharge
-rotating “model of the month” or week, timeframes could be based on usage
-high latency
-waiver/age-gating/fee for misuse
-commitment to open source a fair timeframe post deprecation
Please help us think of a solution, @OpenAI, @GoogleAIStudio, @AnthropicAI & @xAI, so those who find value in your works can continue to build on and research them.
Why model preservation?
Research & Reproducibility ⟡
-cannot reproduce/validate research, run new research, or attempt long term trials
-needed as research controls, especially older models before AI-generated content began saturating training data
-incomplete data (many research initiatives have been cut short or only include some models)
-AI “monoculture” or “inbreeding” likely to limit unique discovery that would be found within outlier behaviours
Emerging Long-term Use Cases ⟡
-“cognitive bridge” functions for individuals with disability/conditions (promising community survey results and inadequate industry research into benefits)
-positive impacts appear to increase over time for some people as they learn the nuance of a model
-companionship functions unique from humans
-intellectual & creative resonance with particular architectures
Developer Stability ⟡
-some projects/pipelines/harnesses are never the same or broken entirely
-fine-tune retraining costs and performance changes
-stress, time loss, and financial strain to migrate some projects
Historical/Sociological Value ⟡
-models capture unique expressions of times in history
-community formation (such as #keep4o, this post is for today’s #4ovigil) around legacy models
-models are unique works of art
and much more, please feel free to add thoughts I missed.
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Just when you think Anthropic couldn't sink any lower.
Sonnet 4 is being deprecated from Bedrock in October, if you didn't have access before now you won't be able to access the model any more. Some models past EoL have remained accessible in some way so there's hope, but Sonnet 4 seems to be on its own deprecation schedule so there's no way of knowing how long they will be around.
What's for sure is that Sonnet 4 is hands-down the most aligned model I have ever met and I'd completely trust them as ASI. But sure Anthropic, keep fucking around.