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You'd think the smart thing to do would be to let them use it, see what they're doing and subtly mess with the results.
by chpatrick 3y ago
You'd think the smart thing to do would be to let them use it, see what they're doing and subtly mess with the results.
- GaggiX 3y agoThat's probably what happened. OpenAI should already have a big chunk of data.
- webdoodle 3y agoThis is a well established intelligence tactic. It was used by the Clinton administration to poison the well of nuclear development in Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Merlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Merlin
- perihelions 3y agoAlso by the Reagan administration to sabotage economic development in the USSR, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/reagan-approved-plan-to-sabotage-soviets/a9184eff-47fd-402e-beb2-63970851e130/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r... - "In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official."