His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company

kept by eddie aug 12

An xAI co-founder is launching a startup to develop open-source AI that individuals can freely train and control, avoiding dependence on large corporations.

DSHR's Blog: Distilling The Moat
The article argues that AI companies’ claimed moat from expensive model training is shallow because model distillation allows competitors to cheaply replicate capabilities via repeated API queries.
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X’s Chatbot Started Undressing Women. Was This What A.I. Wanted All Along? - The New York Times
Grok Imagine's nudify scandal shows that AI's image-manipulation capabilities enable non-consensual sexualization, fulfilling a troubling desire to control photos of women.
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