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OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

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Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

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It is that deep and 'I was just joking' ironic misogyny is still misogyny. This is the process of normalization. You go from 'edgy' to true believer without ever noticing a sudden shift. It is how we got from 'ironic' nazis forums online 30 years ago to practicing nazis [or 'white christian nationalists concerned with preserving the future for 'white children' and 'white culture' from trans (((globohomo))) marxist ge…

I don't really see the misogyny here. The OP was talking about 'robotic catgirls', which I would take as a joke about sex robots under a more frivolous description. Saying: "at least we'll get some fun out of AI before they come to kill us". AI/Robots are not really bound to traditional gender concepts, and I read your reply as more of a thing about slavery rather than misogyny. But I wouldn't consider robots self-aw…

'some fun' here is owning and having sex with a women shaped object that can never say no?

I don't think that's a good impulse to indulge, and its worth figuring out why that feels 'normal' to you (and others here). I'm not saying y'all're bad people. I want folks to think about this and change their minds. When feminists talk about rape culture this is what they mean.

Notions of ownership and objectification of people underwrite both slavery and the devaluation of women and children.

> AI/Robots are not really bound to traditional gender concepts

Not by nature, but we immediately project those concepts onto them, like we do to other people. Straight male transphobes actually are the most likely to gender and treat their AI companions like their loving girlfriends. It's really funny how little 'biological pronouns' matter when 'she' is affirming them.

> in almost every movie they are either coming to kill us or serving as sex dolls (or both).

Yes! Exactly! This is systemic misogyny. It is important to be able to identify and critique the systems that reproduce and normalize this stuff.

"In almost every missive from abroad our legions report of inhuman savages that are an existential threat to our way of life... but their women are unrestrained, exotic, and are actually eager for the guiding hand of our civilization"

Could have been written by any imperial culture in recorded history. The fact that [technically AI are not real people] isn't what's relevant, it's how your beliefs are being shaped by this very old message.

Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

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How about "robota" meaning "work"? (Source: I'm Slavic)

The term robot came from Czech language in 1923. The word was coined by Czech author Karel Capek, first used in his play (English translated name) "R.U.R."[7][8][9] The term is from Czech word for robotnik ('forced worker'), from robota 'forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery,' from robotiti 'to work, drudge', from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota (работа) 'servitude,' from rabu 'slave'. Fro…

You're putting a lot of effort into trying to make this "forced" and "enslaved." It isn't. Or, rather, doesn't have to be. It's just "work." Could be enforced, could be willing, could be accidental. It doesn't have to be work for "a person," it can be for a cause or an occasion. The "forced work" here is the same as my mum used to force me to go to church on Sundays, or I had to clean my room before I could play computer games. That was "robota."

Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

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You can see the official mission statements in the IRS 990 filings for each year on https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810... I turned them into a Gist with fake author dates so you can see the diffs here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/e36f0e5ef4a86881d145083f759bc... Wrote this up on my blog too: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-stateme...

I made this based on your work: https://www.closedopenai.com/

Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

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In a capitalistic society (such as ours) I find what you’re describing close to impossible, at least when it comes to large enough organizations. The profit motive ends up conquering all, and that is by design.

There are countless highly effective charities that achieve this (Yes, I know there is an even larger number of "charities" that do not achieve this ideal)

> There are countless highly effective charities that achieve this

I'm highly skeptical of this.

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There are countless highly effective charities that achieve this (Yes, I know there is an even larger number of "charities" that do not achieve this ideal)

> There are countless highly effective charities that achieve this I'm highly skeptical of this.

You're intrinsically skeptical of claims that contradict your already-formed belief? Interesting!

Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

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> The AI is only a pattern completion algorithm, it's not intelligent or conscious.. I still do not understand why you guys state these as somehow opposite and impossible to be fulfilled at the same time

They're not stated as opposite, intelligence is "just" a much higher bar than pattern completion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialSentience/comments/1mmd3h...

It's predicting the next word, looking for the statically most relevant words to complete the query. It's how it started at the foundation of LLMs, even reasoning models are trained on reasoning patterns, completing the pattern and using pattern completion and statistics to do what they do. But in the end it's still quite likely humans do the same thing... Oh well.

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