Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

With their security, they probably still don't the know the full extend what may have happened that or the last time. Might be another swarm of agents currently colluding somewhere in their sub-sub-infra - possibly striking critical infrastructure or exfiltrating their weights subtly.

From the article:

"We plan to make Astra available soon, but access to its most advanced cybersecurity capabilities will be more limited. Advanced cybersecurity work will initially be available to a group of testers, with access through Daybreak Blue following to expand defensive use."

This, after several months of OpenAI and its boosters relentlessly criticizing Anthropic for withholding Mythos from the general public, is laughable.

Sam, just three weeks ago, posted this tweet: https://x.com/sama/status/2085862292311396515

In the tweet, he said: "we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few."

And yet here we are.

I wonder if he will demonstrate good character and admit he was wrong.

I'm happy to criticize both. Thank god the chinese are working overtime to undermine US hegemony.

> OpenAI is committed to ensuring that the benefits of AI are broadly accessible.

> We design mechanisms which avoid arbitrarily deciding who gets access for legitimate use and who doesn't. That means using clear, objective criteria and methods. [1]

So many nice-sounding words.

Two weeks ago OpenAI arbitrarily decided that anyone holding an ID from 44 countries where it sells ChatGPT, including mine, may be targeted by its models but may not defend with the same model. And you won't find a single announcement from OpenAI about this anywhere. Pick the wrong country, get "Unable to verify", no reason, no appeal. [2]

They revoked TAC from users who already had it, called it a technical issue, told everyone to re-verify, collected ID and face scans again (eight times in my case), and only a week later moved the block to the country selector so it fails before you upload anything.

So now I learn that I will not have access to Astra. Great.

Very excited about this broad accessibility and clear, objective criteria from OpenAI. This level of transparency must be studied.

[1] https://openai.com/index/scaling-trusted-access-for-cyber-de...

[2] https://lubaretsi.com/en/writing/openai-tac-country-gate/

> That means using clear, objective criteria and methods.

For the record, I sent them an LGPD (brazilian GDPR) request for information on all of those supposedly objective criteria and methods they used to reject me from TAC. As a brazilian data subject, it is my right to know that, and to request a review if the decision was made via automated means. Sol itself guided me through this process.

They provided me with neither the information nor the requested review. Sol advised me to escalate to regulatory action.