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If you want a conspiracy theory, consider this: it's likely there is at least one Chinese spy already working for OpenAI.
by chatmasta 4y ago
If you want a conspiracy theory, consider this: it's likely there is at least one Chinese spy already working for OpenAI.
- FeteCommuniste 4y agoWouldn't even have to be someone from China. Just need a big enough carrot or stick to get a well-placed employee to hand over secrets.
- chatmasta 4y agoI haven't checked their hiring page, but I'm guessing they only hire US citizens. But it's well established that China has an industrial espionage strategy with assets active throughout many American companies. It's hard to imagine that OpenAI wouldn't have been a priority target, starting from at least five years ago.
- htrp 4y agoKnow at least half a dozen Open AI people in fairly senior positions who were born in China. Whether they are citizens is a matter of the US Immigration system
- px43 4y agoYeah, like a fifth of the world's population was born in China. Unless a company is explicitly enforcing sinophobic hiring policies, there's going to be a lot of Chinese people working there.
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- l33t233372 4y agoThat is how espionage typically works. Deep cover is for exciting books and is a rarity. An employee of the Chinese government stationed at a local embassy or consulate meeting with an openAI employee with a gambling problem is far more likely than someone working there for a decade to smuggle out the weights of a hypothetical future model.
- px43 4y agoI'm honestly more worried about US spies working for OpenAI. The US military has shown time and time again their obsession with weaponized AI, and now OpenAI has been fully consumed by Microsoft, and is now stating how building open source AI tools was a huge mistake. There now seem to be more paths than ever towards a terminator-esque militarized robot apocalypse. Most players in the space are still doing a lot of great open source work, so I'm still hopeful for a future where technological disparity is kept to a minimum, but it makes me really really nervous seeing how quickly a major player in the space, and a leader in many ways, has suddenly flipped to the dark side and has stopped contributing back to the community.