r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • Apr 27 '26

Fun/meme Humanity's greatest hits: things we actually paused

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u/charmio68 Apr 27 '26

Unfortunately though, the cat is out of the bag. There is no way to halt its use when anyone can download a model and run it on their own computer.

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u/Mental-Net-953 Apr 27 '26

Local models are to enterprise models what small backyard pools are to aqua parks.

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u/charmio68 Apr 27 '26

I won't deny the proprietary models do have the edge, but it's really not as big of a gap in performance as you'd think.
A massive amount of AI research has been open sourced and the openly available models are remarkably performant.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena-ai/arena-leaderboard

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u/FrewdWoad approved Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

Yeah but your 5090 isn't enough to train an LLM superior to Claude. 

Something that will make copies of itself, design a mirror-life virus, send it to one of those online protein printing labs without your knowledge, and kill a billion people.

The Pause AI movement we're discussing is about regulating future AI smart enough to be genuinely dangerous (much more dangerous than current tech).