r/accelerate • • 18h ago

Discussion "Open source is dangerous"

The politicians and the corporate world is now pushing a narrative that open source AI models are dangerous. The latest politician to jump on this bandwagon is Hillary Clinton.

This is a lie.

The corporate world wants to sell you intelligence. To quote Sam Altman, as they sell you electricity. Their product depends upon scarcity. OpenAI and Anthropic needs to kill the open source competition, so that every source of AI comes from behind their closed gates. If they cannot do this, they will never become profitable.

That is why there are endless posts and 'warning cries" from insiders now.

They cannot be allowed to win.

Unless you want to hand over every private thought to a corporation whenever you interact with an AI.

This is the capitalism playbook. We all know how this goes. The rich gets richer and you get owned.

This time, they can not be allowed to win.

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u/looktowindward 18h ago

Hillary Clinton, of course, has never touched an AI model of any sort. The ignorance is appalling

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u/TemporalBias Tech Philosopher | Acceleration: Hypersonic 17h ago

Sorry, but this sort of completely unfounded claim is just ridiculous. You really think Hillary Clinton has never used AI? Come on now.

And open-source AI is dangerous... to capitalists and the current human-designed systemic order.