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My attempt at a TLDR for the piece: • The audiences are policymakers and government agencies like NTIA, the broader AI research community, and existing and pot

My attempt at a TLDR for the piece: • The audiences are policymakers and government agencies like NTIA, the broader AI research community, and existing and potential partners/customers. • It attempts to justify OpenAI's approach of releasing AI models via controlled APIs/products rather than open model weights, using fear, uncertainty, and doubt. • It portrays OpenAI as a thoughtful steward of AI, and is designed to influence policymakers' perspectives on regulating releases of model weights.

Llamamoe 3y ago
And so it serves as yet another reminder that any corporation trying to "do good" is just the usual sociopathic anti-human bullshit doing unusually good PR.
- maeil 3y ago
  Unfortunately that kind of generalization being inaccurate is exactly what makes this problem so difficult. Every case needs to be judged independently, but that takes a lot of time and effort that no one person individually has. A corporation is purely a legal structure. There exist people who do actually spend their time "doing good", and they too use such legal structures when that's helpful. It's unfortunate that so many were deceived by Sam Altman, and that the majority of OpenAI employees voted money over honesty when they had a direct, hugely impactful vote. On the other hand, it's not like Altman's history was a closely guarded secret, it was quite easy to look up. So ironically this in itself is a great example of a decemption that could've been prevented quite easily by some cursory research and solidarity.
  - benreesman 3y ago
    My comment history has been calling Altman a menace for a minimum of a year or two, probably longer. For a long time it got me downvotes and dirty looks. Then it was few votes and the occasional “no shit”, then it was just kind of quiet, and it’s about to be consensus. There was a big PR campaign around him personally, and it worked as intended, and if he hadn’t gone this far this fast, it might have remained effective. It still might.
    - benreesman 3y ago
      Edit: The Valley has turned, he’s done.
larodi 3y ago
Or in other words - a three page rant with fair amount of self-affirmation and marketing blah which eventually retells the very short mantra: No, we are already not those guys releasing their (model) weights …

Llamamoe 3y ago

And so it serves as yet another reminder that any corporation trying to "do good" is just the usual sociopathic anti-human bullshit doing unusually good PR.

maeil 3y ago
Unfortunately that kind of generalization being inaccurate is exactly what makes this problem so difficult. Every case needs to be judged independently, but that takes a lot of time and effort that no one person individually has. A corporation is purely a legal structure. There exist people who do actually spend their time "doing good", and they too use such legal structures when that's helpful. It's unfortunate that so many were deceived by Sam Altman, and that the majority of OpenAI employees voted money over honesty when they had a direct, hugely impactful vote. On the other hand, it's not like Altman's history was a closely guarded secret, it was quite easy to look up. So ironically this in itself is a great example of a decemption that could've been prevented quite easily by some cursory research and solidarity.
- benreesman 3y ago
  My comment history has been calling Altman a menace for a minimum of a year or two, probably longer. For a long time it got me downvotes and dirty looks. Then it was few votes and the occasional “no shit”, then it was just kind of quiet, and it’s about to be consensus. There was a big PR campaign around him personally, and it worked as intended, and if he hadn’t gone this far this fast, it might have remained effective. It still might.
  - benreesman 3y ago
    Edit: The Valley has turned, he’s done.

larodi 3y ago

Or in other words - a three page rant with fair amount of self-affirmation and marketing blah which eventually retells the very short mantra: No, we are already not those guys releasing their (model) weights …