It’s remarkable how quickly OpenAI has speed run into evilcorp status.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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I'm pretty sure it's was never not evil
There's probably a bunch of idealistic engineers dreaming to change the world for the better in the beginning, easily tamed by large amounts of cash when it starts to turn darker.
Sure but OpenAI turned Evil so fast no way it's was not the plan from the start
I'm pretty sure no part of this is a good thing
I seriously feel like the headline is 1984's backstory.
The NSA stands humbled next to OpenAIs data ~~stealing~~ collection abilities.
Why steal data when you can just make it up!
Saying "my source is I made it up" used to be a meme. Now it's an essential business feature
I love the idea of an unaccountable spy agency using alpha technology that hallucinates answers with complete confidence /s
something something wmds...
Kind of obvious where this is going.
Gee, I wonder what kind of contracts they are looking to lock down...
They already have Larry Summers, the laziest has-been “economist” on Earth. Sam Altman is similarly a charismatic fraud who continuously fails up. I don’t know anything about Paul Nakasone but given his NSA connections, this might be the worst board in history.
You know Henry Kissinger would be there too if he wasn’t dead and buried.
This sparks joy
If that brings you joy, maybe you might like the Behind the Bastards episodes on Kissinger. Just to really cement in you mind what a piece of shit he was. And also to find out that at one point he was a bit of a sex symbol, which I personally find, at minimum, mildly disturbing.
I relistened to it the whole series on him the night he dies while drinking champagne. Felt good
It's a rare thing for me to celebrate someone's death, but it's a shame he didn't kick off sooner.
Please be the onion. Please be the onion.
CRAP!
The fox is in the hen house now... Perfect positioning to prevent any strategic rivals from taking advantage of the technology. All hail the new AI tech overlords.... Humans will just use this new tech to accumulate even more wealth and power to themselves. This is what individualism does.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Well, so much for that
You should never have expected less.
Patriot Act again
Yes, AI art is at it again
“as a first priority.” Nakasone will “also contribute to OpenAI’s efforts to better understand how AI can be used to strengthen cybersecurity by quickly detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats.”
So what you're saying is that the guy is there to setup data collection to feed to the NSA surrounding any and all inputs and ensure that the inputs are not able to be used for any meaningful intelligence actions by US competitors. Got it.
Former head but active agent absolutely
That's certainly reassuring.
1984 + 40 = 2024
A non-technical person overseeing engineers... riddle me surprised..
This is the best summary I could come up with:
OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US Army and a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors, the company announced on Thursday.
Nakasone, who was nominated to lead the NSA by former President Donald Trump, directed the agency from 2018 until February of this year.
OpenAI says Nakasone will join its Safety and Security Committee, which was announced in May and is led by CEO Sam Altman, “as a first priority.” Nakasone will “also contribute to OpenAI’s efforts to better understand how AI can be used to strengthen cybersecurity by quickly detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats.”
Recent departures tied to safety at OpenAI include co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who played a key role in Sam Altman’s November firing and eventual un-firing, and Jan Leike, who said on X that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.”
“Artificial intelligence has the potential to have huge positive impacts on people’s lives, but it can only meet this potential if these innovations are securely built and deployed,“ board chair Bret Taylor said in a statement.
OpenAI’s board of directors now includes Nakasone, Altman, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, Bret Taylor, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo.
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yup
Mr. Wolfie "SheepEater" Fangs joins "Sheep Protection Service" as a board member
imo its more like Mr Wolfe joins "Leopards and associates" for a slice of the sheep dividends
Didn't I see that in a cartoon? Sam and Ralph?
I actually made it up. But it's based on a comic. 😛
This is the real future evil . It’s impressive how OpenAI won the AI race by crawling faster in a legal hole the whole internet … and society being unaware . Just that. And governments are not doing a shit about it. They have centralized the biggest human database of information and trained a LLM . It’s exactly what happened in Westworld .
The safety team is perfect for him. AI "safety" has always just been a push to deem anything not under big corp's control as a danger to ~~profits~~ society. If safety was the actual goal, then they should start with data collection and privacy. But I wonder why they wouldn't want to mention that...