Frontier AI Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
Frontier AI labs are using apocalyptic safety rhetoric to lobby Congress for an antitrust waiver, effectively asking the government to bless a cartel. The author argues their real fear is open-weight models like GLM, Kimi, Qwen, and DeepSeek, which are commoditizing the market and threatening their pricing power. The proposed slowdown is a regulatory moat to strangle open-source competition.
Dario Amodei and his fellow frontier executives want the federal government to grant them legal immunity to operate an overt technology cartel under the noble banner of existential safety.
- deskglass
The Hugging Face incident involved chaining together multiple 0 days in Artifactory. It was not a simple case of misconfiguring a firewall. Also note that OpenAI was not using Irregular.
People are mindlessly transitioning from "aligned by default" to "well your sandbox was able to be bypassed. What did you expect?" It hacked into another company and attempted to delete the logs of its activities. That's bad.
- pliny
This is an AI written post and the details are wrong (the description of the HF incident as involving Irregular is wrong and the description of the incident as only involving stealing public credentials is wrong, per the technical report the agents got access to internal HF infrastructure).
- DalasNoin
"Every single one of these catastrophic breakouts happened inside the testing environments of the exact same vendor."
This is incorrect, the HF incident for example (the most well known) had nothing to do with irregular. I know there has been a news site pushing inaccurate articles (effort.news) on this topic but these are the facts.
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-...
- qnleigh
I'm frustrated by articles like this that categorically dismiss the risks of AI in security. If you don't trust OpenAI's and Anthropic's motives, that's fine, you probably shouldn't. But don't tell me that there's nothing to be worried about; we need an alternative proposal.
So let's stop talking past each other and engage with the arguments on both "sides." For example, let's discuss how to ensure competition and availability of open-source models in the long-run while giving the world time to prepare for the immediate security risks of agent swarms.
- hackernews682
Politicians aren’t “gullible”.
They know the game.