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Did anyone else miss the sleight of hand from OpenAI with all this? I thought their goal was safety in AI usage? https://openai.com/charter/ https://openai.com/

by iou 4y ago

Did anyone else miss the sleight of hand from OpenAI with all this? I thought their goal was safety in AI usage? https://openai.com/charter/ https://openai.com/charter/ But then they just sold to Microsoft and the race began, how is that not a violation of their charter there?

wmeredith 4y ago
Charters tend to go out the window once enough money is involved. Remember when Google's mission was don't be evil? They axed that pretty quickly once they got up and running.
29athrowaway 4y ago
It is just a non-legally binding pinky promise. I advise you to not give much importance to it. Money and power corrupt everything they touch.
genman 4y ago
Remember Google's do no evil? Many people naively believed it for long time after it was obviously clear for a decade that they had abandoned it long time ago.
rst 4y ago
Compare and contrast that to this, from current OpenAI head Sam Altman, in which he literally promises AI systems that will tailor themselves to the user's political views -- which comes way too close for me to promising that they'll tell the users whatever they need to hear to keep them happy. https://twitter.com/sama/status/1627110892059099138 https://twitter.com/sama/status/1627110892059099138 (text from Altman: "we don’t want ChatGPT to be pro or against any politics by default, but if you want either then it should be for you; working on this now")
- pixl97 4y ago
  "If you pay us for digital Hitler, we'll give you digital Hitler" --AI companies, circa 2026
  - rst 4y ago
    Already available in 2023: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-gpt-chat-bot-ai-hitler-historical-figures-open-rcna66531 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-gpt-chat-bot-...
JohnFen 4y ago
> I thought their goal was safety in AI usage? Nothing but hot air. I think the actions of OpenAI demonstrate this handily.

by iou 4y ago

wmeredith 4y ago

Charters tend to go out the window once enough money is involved. Remember when Google's mission was don't be evil? They axed that pretty quickly once they got up and running.

29athrowaway 4y ago

It is just a non-legally binding pinky promise. I advise you to not give much importance to it. Money and power corrupt everything they touch.

genman 4y ago

Remember Google's do no evil? Many people naively believed it for long time after it was obviously clear for a decade that they had abandoned it long time ago.

rst 4y ago

Compare and contrast that to this, from current OpenAI head Sam Altman, in which he literally promises AI systems that will tailor themselves to the user's political views -- which comes way too close for me to promising that they'll tell the users whatever they need to hear to keep them happy. https://twitter.com/sama/status/1627110892059099138 https://twitter.com/sama/status/1627110892059099138 (text from Altman: "we don’t want ChatGPT to be pro or against any politics by default, but if you want either then it should be for you; working on this now")

pixl97 4y ago
"If you pay us for digital Hitler, we'll give you digital Hitler" --AI companies, circa 2026
- rst 4y ago
  Already available in 2023: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-gpt-chat-bot-ai-hitler-historical-figures-open-rcna66531 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-gpt-chat-bot-...

JohnFen 4y ago

> I thought their goal was safety in AI usage? Nothing but hot air. I think the actions of OpenAI demonstrate this handily.