It's also not the old people. Sure, the rich are old people, but that doesn't mean old people are rich.
FooBarrington
joined 3 years ago
Unfortunately there's still plenty of unencrypted traffic from normal usage (e.g. DoH is still fairly rare).
If every AI company steals the public data separately, it means massively increased costs for everyone who is getting their data stolen. If the AI companies "steal" from each other it's much better for everyone else.
They still need us to advance AI until it's able to self-improve. That's why they're pumping so much money into scaling. Once they have that, we'll have lost all leverage - that's what their evaluations are based on.
I don't think the current approach can achieve this, but it looks like they'll do their damndest to try. They've already prepared for the worst, and if they can choose between X years before everything goes to shit, or X minus ? years before it goes to shit BUT they get AGI to play with in their bunkers...