Reed Albergotti and Ben Smith, reporting last night for Semaphor:
The decision, in a letter sent Friday afternoon to Anthropic, is a
major de-escalation in the confrontation between the Trump
Administration and one of the world’s most valuable private
companies. Two weeks ago the administration imposed export
controls on Mythos, leading to a shut down of the model and its
cousin Fable 5 after warnings from Amazon and other companies that
they could be “jailbroken” for malicious purposes.The letter is silent on Fable 5, a weaker version of Mythos that
was briefly the most powerful AI model widely available to
consumers. People close to the talks said they are moving toward
releasing Fable as well, though that timeline is unclear. […]Lutnick’s letter marks the beginnings of a new regulatory regime
that gives the US government control over the release of frontier
AI models.
A completely ad hoc policy of “Whatever the White House says, goes” is the makings of a terrible regulatory framework for AI. This would be true no matter who was president at the moment. But it’s particularly disastrous for this administration, which is both utterly transactional and staffed from top to bottom with anti-science know-nothings confident that their “ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”.
Howard Lutnick is making these determinations? I mean come on.
