Credit for changing the wording, but I still feel this does not adequately convey how sweeping the impact of the proposal would be if implemented as-is. Foundation model-related work is a sizeable and rapidly growing chunk of active AI development. Of the 15K pre-print papers posted on arXiv under the CS.AI category this year, 2K appear to be related to language models. The most popular Llama2 model weights alone have north of 500K downloads to date, and foundation-model related repos have been trending on Github for months. “People working with [a few technical labs’] models” is a massive community containing many thousands of developers, researchers, and hobbyists. It is important to be honest about how they will likely be impacted by this proposed regulation.
Credit for changing the wording, but I still feel this does not adequately convey how sweeping the impact of the proposal would be if implemented as-is. Foundation model-related work is a sizeable and rapidly growing chunk of active AI development. Of the 15K pre-print papers posted on arXiv under the
CS.AIcategory this year, 2K appear to be related to language models. The most popular Llama2 model weights alone have north of 500K downloads to date, and foundation-model related repos have been trending on Github for months. “People working with [a few technical labs’] models” is a massive community containing many thousands of developers, researchers, and hobbyists. It is important to be honest about how they will likely be impacted by this proposed regulation.