The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

  • funkforager@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Remember when open ai was a nonprofit first and foremost, and we were supposed to trust they would make AI for good and not evil? Feels like it was only Thanksgiving…

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I mean, there was all that drama where the board formed to prevent this from happening kicked out the CEO trying to do this stuff, then the board got booted out and replaced with a new board and brought back that CEO guy. So this was pretty much going to happen.

      • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Effective altruism is just capitalism camoflauge, it’s also just really bad at being camoflauge

      • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        And some people pointed it out even back then. There were signs that the employees were very loyal to Altmann, but Altmann didn’t meet the security concerns of the board. So stuff like this was just a matter of time.

    • wooki@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I wouldnt be too worried they’ve just made an over glorified word predictor and blender of peoples art

    • Moira_Mayhem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It seems to be a trend that any service that claims not to be evil is just waiting for the right moment to drop that pretense.