Susan Collins called and she wants her "deeply concerned but I hope they have learned a pretty big lesson and will be more cautious in the future" policy back

Right... because my posting history and frequency matches spam / generated content. Obviously time traveling agent of Roko's basilisk and your incisive criticism of the elites triggered my defenses.

If more than one sentence challenges reading comprehension - I can simplify:

People can do things that are bad without being illegal, and people can do illegal things without being punished.

This is not a bad thing, its a hard-won feature of non-authoritarian governments. Tyrants love systems where the law is strict and justice has no discretion, because then every respite is a personal favor, to be granted or recanted at their whim.

If you think democracy is not working right instead of karma-baiting, exercise your political voice not just in elections. Let your elected officials know their political career improves if they show good judgement of public interest and ends if they're clearly partisan or performative. Complaining in what-about-isms does the opposite.

A legal defense for an illegal act does not need to be logical im the "it makes common sense" way. An illegal act does not need to be criminal offense in "the state will prosecute and may send you to jail" sense.

Neither criminal nor civil offenses need to be prosecuted in "the state attorneys believe they can win the case... *and* its worth it for them to prosecute the case". (whether for them as an institution or a person)

The prosecutorial discretion and incentives are by design biased against the state filing frivolous prosecutions. If you've seen the alternative in practice, it can be a lot worse. But its on the voters to hold their elected officials accountable on how they use that discretion.

"How might the attorney general address these issues?"

By achieving enough name recognition in the general population to win a US House or US Senate election and move to Northern Virginia for the rest of his life, returning "home" to Alabama only for reelection campaigns.

Government entities are naturally conservative and courts / judges are going to be skeptical for years about using AI for official work, considering every public anecdote about AI in since the "i'm not a cat" lawyer would be career enders in that role.

But I would expect more sophisticated prompt injections to be a larger concern at interfering with opposing counsel which may have to review and include a pile of documents as LLM context ("Harvey" is a thing,).

Rural communities could deal with the problem by selective enforcement - i.e. the local sheriff chooses not to be a dick. But this seems a problem better solved with different license types.

If some states can give a junior license with restrictions on nighttime driving (w/o licensed supervision, etc) they could make it easier to get a basic license w/ road restrictions based on verified id + online test.

No, no, non you don't understand. AlphaFold demonstrated serious artificial intelligence could help solve real, expensive, research problems with provable results and quantifiable value.

That is the worst thing you can do in the current environment; why would you want provable results? The moment you can prove which type of problem you can solve, everybody only asks about the 100 problems that have no line of sight to production and the 1000 problems you can only prove this cannot solve. That's how you get into ROI conversations in the first place and a single millions-lives-saving problem cannot justify trillion dollar valuations

But if you are *pre-solutions* and stick to demos and trustmebro benchmarks - you can say its all about AGI, baby! You're a pure potential play.

Its not what your tech can do, its about making promises large enough the investors can't risk to ignore the opportunity, and get them to invest large enough sums they can't afford to let you fail

The Wall Street Journal used to be a very good newspaper with a moderately conservative viewpoint and an extreme (some would say nutty) Radical Right editorial page. Now it just exists to provide a veneer of respectability to whatever scheme the hard Radical Right has cooked up to demonize a new Other (or resurrect the demonization of a previous Other) and hoover more money out of the pockets of the median Citizen.

Good point!

Darl McBride used to refer to the "spiffy agent technology" that was going to find the allegedly infringing code, so that particular grift is nothing new.

I am old and my sight grows dim, but I am pretty sure this all happened before the first 0.01 version of Linux was released.

"If you must write a check, he said, try to deliver it in person or take it inside a post office to mail rather than relying on your own mailbox or public drop boxes. "

That was the neighborhood advice going around our area 1-2 years ago. I myself was skeptical that mail theft was going on as I had dealt with the Postal Police when managing an e-commerce site and I knew they are very good at finding things like this. Unfortunately it turned out (1) I was wrong: there was mail theft going on in our neighborhood but (2) everyone else was wrong too: the mail wasn't being stolen from blue boxes; it was being lifted from the bins behind the slot in our postal service center. The perps were eventually caught but it took far longer than I would have thought.

TFA from Techcrunch is basically "creative editorializing" the original reporting of other sources (axios mainly) to justify the clickbait headline. But it you click through to the original sources the story is more nuanced and more interesting.

The surface dynamic is anthropic is in a delicate position and struggling to manage a "temperamental" regulatory power *and* strategic customer shortly before their IPO.

The background dynamic is multiple sources close enough to the matter in the exec branch felt so strongly this was an unnecessary escalation and that anthropic was the party who could and had to fix it, that they're talking to axios reporters the next day.

  In an administration that is proudly punitive of leaks, don't assume multiple people are spilling the tea to reporters this quickly out of civic interest or a strong belief in the role of free press.

Its not just who remains after the bubble pops - its we dont know yet *which product* will pay the bills, and *then* who remains selling that product.

OpenAI has more users overall, but they have mainly "sold" a free / loss leader product. Anthropic has become more popular on the enterprise "maybe eliza doesnt pay the bills" business model. OpenAI pivots but if this were "search" its too early to figure out if either of these is google or they're yahoo and altavista.

Nvidia seems to be betting this is the PC + MPC redux and all these folks are trying to be IBM selling mainframes; which is less of a "worst timeline" but they're biased since their valuation already priced in the "mainframe" market. Democratizing AI is a larger addressable market for a chips seller whether its a real market or not.

Or the real business model could be elsewhere altogether - I still remember the early aughts when the future of growth for the interwebs was telecoms and iTV and Netflix was shipping CDs and the video streaming business was licensing codecs.

I knew several people in ruraltania who bought into the 3rd generation of raising Vietnamese potbellied pigs. First and second generations made a fair amount of money selling into a rising novelty market; the second generation also made money selling to third generation hopefuls. Third generation breeders lost their shirts of course. Before that it was small farmers in central Ontario who discovered that ginseng grows very well in that climate and soil and that was large, nay HUGE, demand for that root in the PRC. This is perhaps even more germane to the tech example because it takes the first crop of ginseng 7 years to mature, so many many Lake Erie-area farmers saw their early-in neighbors harvesting the crop and the cash - only to see the market flooded and prices crash the year before they were due to harvest.