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Wouldn'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.
by FeteCommuniste 4y ago
Wouldn'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.