Safety

[King-Darius]

How can local LLM's be both safe and accessible in a way that will prevent future legislation just banning them causing lock-out for the open source community?

[mscottgithub]

I am curious about this question as well. The idea that of legislation banning any speech annoys the heck out of me. Anything that can be done to prevent that scenario from unfolding is good. But I suspect no matter what we do tyrants will be tyrants.

[byrongibson]

In the US there's already legal precedent protecting software as speech, originating with the Crypto Wars (https://reason.com/video/2020/10/21/cryptowars-gilmore-zimmermann-cryptography/). It will be difficult for the govt to pass a bill outlawing open source AI, since it likely won't pass Constitutional muster, and especially when Marc Andreesen, A16Z and the Accelerationist community start counter-lobbying against the AI doomers.

Regarding safety, I don't think local AI's are anywhere near the level of AGI yet. Only the most powerful datacenter AI has a chance at becoming AGI, and that can certainly be regulated.

[dincudaniel]

Can create api, to creat task from api directly from my pc?

[enema-combatant]

Safe - how do you keep a hammer safe? A hammer can be used to both build a house and unalive a person.

I need to be able to research ANYTHING ... in a potential scenario where I'd like to do something illegal according to normal, customary laws in my supposed jurisdiction. However, that exact 'thing' I wish to research, is considered 'allowed' in times of crisis or national emergency.

While I wish I could lawyer up more (IANAL), I definitely think laws preside and are in effect during 'normal' circumstances. But when those circumstances (SHTF [poppy synthesis], solar flare X99 [gamma shielding], COVID.next [ivermectin], I AM Legend lion-style attacks [firearms], or clearing roads [exposives]) occur, I won't be very pleased and forgiving if the LLM in which I'm asking questions to save my life or that of someone else - decides I'm flirting with morals.

Proposal:

A guard-rail free mode? If the issue of subpoena arises, a download to the Guardrail Free version can be audited, and provided upon proper court subpoena. It's no more risk that GitHub being breached and all of our emails being (re-re-re-sold) on the darweb.

C'mon for f's sake - this is 2024. We're not luddites, and knowledge cannot be siphoned.

"The wise man is like a river that flows freely, sharing its waters with all."

• The Instructions of Shuruppak - 3000 BCE

[SINAPSA-IC]

Once technology and hardware become accessible for all interested people, those people will build their own (small, specialized) models and share them to friends, then this process would go on exponentially, from person to person, one-to-many.

As for personal use, privacy-wise, it's 2024, and the Samizdat concept came up in the 80s, there already exist torrents, dark web and file backup, far away from regulations - one can store Good models for later use on a memory stick, and let the "tyrants" regulate anything in the open that'd be Advertised as being Open.

Why advertise an Open entity by exposing it this way to censorship? Keep and update the info on the dark web, and/or share it from person to person. It won't be the Open Source of today, in the open, and will circulate and spread slower, but regulated it won't be.

And if /you don't want /your info to be messed with, just don't put it in the cloud, or don't put it in the lap of"tyrants", otherwise don't complain.

A non-issue, really. Information, like life, will always find a way.