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OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

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>Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s vice president of global affairs, said in an interview that the US AI Safety Institute – a key government group focused on AI – could act as the main point of contact between the federal government and the private sector. If companies work with the group voluntarily to review models, the government could provide them “with liability protections including preemption from state based regulations…

Has OpenAI hired McKinsey yet?

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Moats are not a problem if your liege lord teleports in and lowers the drawbridge for you.

no need for teleportation. just climb the walls. the castle is not protected, and has no pots of oil or flaming arrows yet.

unfortunately their Ai refuses to help them attack the castle, citing safety concerns.

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>Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s vice president of global affairs, said in an interview that the US AI Safety Institute – a key government group focused on AI – could act as the main point of contact between the federal government and the private sector. If companies work with the group voluntarily to review models, the government could provide them “with liability protections including preemption from state based regulations…

Has OpenAI hired McKinsey yet?

I'm unsure if you can layoff AI

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I think we are beyond the "theory" phase by now. Just yesterday I saw the president of a country advertising the products of a private company (Trump making an obvious marketing ploy for Tesla). How can this ever be acceptable?

I saw it even 4 years ago https://people.com/politics/joe-biden-takes-hybrid-jeep-for-...

> ...his speech, which was attended by the CEOs of dozens of the world's largest automakers...

I don't recall Biden reading off a price sheet for a single corporation. Seems a bit different than what happened yesterday the White House.

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Wow, just wow.

Truly wow. The sucking up to coroporations is terrifying. This, when Aaron Swartz was institutionally murdered by the institutions and the state for "copyright infringement". And what he did wasn't even for profit, or even a 0.00001 of the scale of the theft that OpenAI and their ilk have done. So it's totally OK to rip off and steal and lie through your teeth AND do it all for money, if you're a company. But if you'…

Thank you for putting my sentiment into words. THIS. It's not power to the people, it's power to the oligarchs. Once you have enough power and, more importantly, wealth, you're welcomed into the fold with open arms. Just how Spotify build a library of stolen music, as long as wealth was created, there is no problem because wealth is just money taken from the people and given to the ruling class.

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I like how this "freedom to learn" should apply to models, but not real people..

It already applies to real people, doesn't it? I.e. if you read a book, you're not allowed to start printing and selling copies of that book without permission of the copyright owner, but if you learn something from that book you can use that knowledge, just like a model could.

And when I "learn" a verbatim copy of pages of that book, then write those pages out in Microsoft Word & sell those pages its legal?

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sure you can, you could take a physical book, and painstakingly copy each page at a time, that is totally fair use.

Citation needed.

This is a specific exception in Australia Copyright law. It allows reproducing works in books, newspapers and periodical publications in different form for private and domestic use.

(Copyright Act 1968 Part III div. 1, section 43C) https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1968A00063/latest/text

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The fact that Chris Lehane is the one involved in this should tell you all you need to know about how on the level all this is.

For those of us who don’t recognize him by name, can you spell it out a little more clearly please?

Heavy hitter lawyer, PR expert. Some google terms: Masters of disaster, Spin cycle.

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OpenAI lobbied for restrictive rules, and now they want an "out" but only for themselves. Absolute naked regulatory capture.

Also textbook Fascism. Trump should have a Most Favored Corporate status, each corporation in a vertical can compete for favor and the one that does gets to be "teacher's pet" when it comes to exemptions, contracts, trade deals, priority in resource right access, etc.

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