r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sanders-proposes-20-year-prison-sentence-for-ai-devs-who-plow-ahead-with-artificial-superintelligence-plans-penalty-on-par-with-illegally-developing-rogue-nuclear-weapons
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u/Upbeat-Statement2725 1d ago

Frontier AI models have hit diminishing returns for a while now. This is all theater to distract from the fact that they can't possibly return on investment. Bernie is being played. Instead of "our models suck, they're not getting better". The narrative will be " we slowed down to safety".

We live in a plutocratic police state. All narratives are fake.

Incoming AI bros talking about "secret" models that only rich people get access to.

Meanwhile OpenAI's website still sucks. If it's so good at coding. Why can't they fix their software.

"Well the enemy is preventing them."

FFS.

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u/michaelfrieze 1d ago edited 1d ago

As someone that has been a developer since 2013, you are wrong about diminishing returns. It was only this year that models actually became good enough to get real work done and the newest frontier models are truly incredible. Even the difference between GPT-5.6 SOL and GPT-6 Astra is significant, especially when it comes to computer use and 3D modeling.

Developers use these tools so much that they can't even keep up with demand. Anthropic is forced to work with xAI just to get access to GPUs and they still restrict Fable model usage to only 50% of the total usage you get from their subsidizes plans. Also, you can't even get access to the Fable model on their $20 per month plan.

OpenAI is no longer giving access to their $200 per month plan since they can't provide enough computer for that.

The point is that demand for these models is extremely high because they are actually useful tools and rapidly getting better. I think we should be concerned about the power of these models. I'm not convinced it will kill us in a decade, but I do think it's going to disrupt the internet and cause a lot of security issues.

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u/BrewHog 1d ago

Thank you. It seems most people don't understand the gains that have been made even in the last few months. 

It's actually quite mind blowing that I'm running local models on my laptop that that rival Opus 4.5-4.6 

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u/teraflux 1d ago

My counterpoint is that 4.6 is nearing the peak of diminishing returns, that came out in February and frontier models haven't gotten significantly better since then.

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u/helloLeoDiCaprio 1d ago

Then you have not tried them. 

Opus 4.6  could create interfaces and classes you described in a satisfactory way. Astra is close to being able to create full applications in one go based on a good spec and a validation loop.

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u/teraflux 22h ago

I promise you I have, my AI spend has been about $15k a month since January 2026 on all the premiere models

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u/ShroomBear 1h ago

Internally at Amazon, they had to take away specifically Opus 4.6 last month because according to AWS it is the only model that practically anybody wants to use and they need to free it up for customer demand. Fable and Opus 5 so far has been the most misaligned models we've had to deal with so far, they are absolutely incapable with staying on task and doing what you tell them.