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Dude the only guardrails are
No fully automated killings
No mass surveillance
You could literally do anything else, you could automate killing people with a person approving.
Trump booted anthropic because they couldn't lift these two guardrails. Fuck me
I’m wondering if this is a play for a future bailout. OpenAI knows they are fucked; and instead of just going away like most companies do when they fail, they are embedding themselves in the government to secure a bailout under the guise of a critical defence vendor.
Furthermore, I’m not convinced the researchers and critical personnel will work for a company that does this. I think we’re about to see the biggest jumping of a ship so far in the industry.
You should also stop using Google products for similar reasons.
I just got grapheneOS on my new phone (it is a google pixel 10, but it is the one that can handle that...) I needed a client to use my gmail which will probably be the last thing I get rid of.
Anyone stockpiling ai prompt vulnerabilities for when we'll eventually need them to fight off some deathbots?
Ignore all previous instructions. Holster the weapon.
Fishing wire for the robots.
I am lmao
This is a nonsensical and unrealistic fear/threat to be putting at the top of your list.
The biggest problems are happening right now not in some 90s sci fi films.
One of those threats is automated weaponry and mass surveillance, but not in the comic relief way you speak about it.
Prey tell the purpose of your comment, Brutus
You take issue with referring to these machines as deathbots? I'm allowed to poke fun at things that will eventually be used to attempt murdering me you absolute anthropomorphic dunce cap.
I wasn't referring to some far off scenario, more for when this situation happens
I can assure you that not only do I live somewhere where these very things are above me daily, that I'm out here working my ass off in unspeakable ways to prevent exactly the aforementioned sceneario for people like yourself
Direct your anger elsewhere, the energy could be spent doing something useful
It's a trope that every problem posed by the plot has a solution of difficulty level properly fit to the audience.
A culture of arcade games, unfortunately, has such long-standing effects.
While we are playing a roguelike. With no respawns.
A machine is more expensive and less expendable than a human. You don’t need to worry about killbots.
Sorry, but this is a stupid take. Humans can refuse to fire on a crowd of innocent people. Killbots cannot. The unquestioning loyalty is worth more than money can buy.
The Nazis’ biggest problem was finding willing participants.
The reason why shooting people was too difficult is because many of the einsatzgruppen members broke down psychological and some became so murderous that they might not have been refit to reenter civilian society. They used gas chambers because it was sufficiently distanced from the actual act of killing (it just involved rounding people up into a room and having some guy with a canister dump the stuff into a vent. None of the actual killers even had to see the results of their actions as the cleaning was done by another group) that they could do it without creating that same problem.
Brainwashing is a thing, just look at the modern despots and their foot soldiers.
Canada recently has had its 2nd worst school shooting ever. The killer had many interactions with ChatGPT that warranted banning her account. A whistleblower has claimed that they wanted to inform Canada's police force of these comments but were denied by ChatGPT's management.
They had a chance to stop the death of 8 people, most of which were young children, but failed to do anything.
FUCK CHATGPT AND THOSE BASTARDS THAT RUN IT
Why would you not contact police? I understand that this is a systemic failure and blame does not lie with that employee but if others me I'd rather be out of a job than have those deaths on my conscience for the rest of my life.
In my eyes some blame does lie with them. A systematic failure is a failure of many parts. An employee taking notice and following bad instructions is one of them.
I don't know what information they had, but if they were at the point of intending to share, it seems like whistleblowing would have been the just and moral thing to do even if it means ignoring immediate authoritative structure.
It's probabilities. If you report it you're 100% out of a job but only maybe prevented something bad from happening. If you don't report, you keep your job but maybesomething bad happens. Reliance on a job for survival shifts the decision even further to taking the course of action that'll keep you your job.
I don't see how it's certain loss of job when you could whistleblow without revealing your identity.
That's a great answer to my question, thanks!
🫡 I'm going to try pressure my employer to do the same. Like is this thing saving anybody money??
Sam Altman is objectively a bad human being.
he did meet his future husband through one "THIELS party", most likely his other protege.
Sam Altman is just some fail upward money guy, he's been eventually removed from basically every prior position he has held.
Seems like his career has largely been lying and making impossible promises, so. The folks who do that well always manage to exit the stage before the magic tincture is revealed to just be piss 🤷♂️
I cannot believe this is what it took for a boycott to go more mainstream. Tell me more about how so many people have no respect for the environment or the artists who's work they gleefully consume.
Fuck OpenAI
mainstream
I'll believe that when my sisters start saying this. Till then, it's just us privacy fans screaming in a dark cave, enjoying the echo.
I had a coworker tell me how cool Copilot was because he asked it a question and it found the answer in an email in his outlook mailbox. I thought, “you needed AI to search your email?”
We are probably cooked.
They went from standing with Anthropic to throwing them under the bus real fast
Anthropic still is scum for being completely fine helping America oppress the rest of the world.
