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Siobhan Shea's avatar

🤦‍♀️ so the new safety committee is Sam sending himself emails saying "this is fine"

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Chaos Goblin's avatar

Something something not consistently candid...

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Shon Pan's avatar

He has checked himself and confirmed that he is fine.

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Gerben Wierda's avatar

Fox. Henhouse.

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A Thornton's avatar

Altman is a charlatan, thief, and liar. There's no reason to believe anything he says.

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Miriam Reynoldson's avatar

"Gary Marcus keeps receipts" is such a fantastic mic drop. I'm stealing it.

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Amy A's avatar

FT is also reporting that OpenAIs spokesperson is backing off claims of superintelligence as a goal, saying they only ever aspired for the technology to be as good as humans.

Don’t believe your lying ears 👂

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Not to worry: Sam will be looking out for our interests in his role as a member of the US Government's AI Safety and Security Board. /s

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Jurgen Gravestein's avatar

I like how blog post states they are giving themselves 90 days to come up with a plan. Feels like they’re trying to buy themselves time and meanwhile hope the media storm blows over.

OpenAI’s blog posts usually don’t age well. Eleven months ago, the Superalignment team was announced and now it’s been disbanded completely.

And when they announced their Voice Engine in their post titled Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices, it explicitedly stated they “recognize that generating speech that resembles people's voices has serious risks”. They then went on to impersonate Scarlett Johansson during a demo of their newest shiny toy, one month later.

🤦‍♂️

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David's avatar

Everytime people find me cynical I try to explain how I am not cynical enough. Stranger than fiction, all of this.

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Matthew Ferrara's avatar

“We’re planning a way to allow wide swaths of the world to elect representatives to a new governance board….”

Oh that sounds like (checks notes, sees reference to the UN) such an effective model for managing the digital revolution. Perhaps the “Alt” in “Altman” stands for “alternative universe”

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George Burch's avatar

Ons governance model is to use blockchain smart contracts and Distributed Autonomous Organizations to decentralize and demonetize profit motive to lie. Models can be made immutable so changes are transparent. Regulatory capture by money would end. Of course there are complications in this approach but most are technical. Complications caused by insincerity, greed or hubris are far harder to fix. Thanks Gary.

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Ben P's avatar

“We’re planning a way to allow wide swaths of the world to elect representatives to a new governance board.”

Twenty bucks say they were gonna to do it with blockchain.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Lord Acton's diktat strikes again!

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