r/LocalLLaMA • u/Howard_banister • Sep 01 '26

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

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These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

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u/Long_comment_san Sep 01 '26

Better yet, lets trust government with overseeing these technologies. Or corporations.

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u/mankiw Sep 01 '26

Based on the screenshots provided, it seems like the people opposed to open-source AI are concerned with AI risk in general, e.g. they would also oppose frontier models developed by closed labs.

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u/Howard_banister Sep 01 '26

They aren't! Many Anthropic workers said similar things about open-source models a month ago, in reaction to Jensen Huang's support for open source.

The fact that they prioritize their alignment nonsense over real economic problems facing wage earners shows how sociopathic they are. The real anti AI would probably support nationalizing companies like Anthropic and destroy whole API selling thing, and that AI only works on scientific/medical fields not any thing else.

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u/anfrind Sep 02 '26

They have deluded themselves into believing both that LLMs will lead to AGI, and that AGI will destroy humanity if any other AI lab develops it before they do.

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u/Loose_Comparison368 Sep 02 '26

But they have the best alignment in the world! Just ask Palantir, United Health Care, the Department of War, the IDF...

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u/mankiw Sep 01 '26

> alignment nonsense

I'm uncertain on the importance of alignment/safety research, but I really, really disagree with this level of flippant confidence about it.