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OpenAI for Countries
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Re: OpenAI for Countries
#42In the post-truth era, with fascism gaining adepts all across the world... who would want to give a government editorial powers on generative AI?
I'm deeply pessimistic.
Re: OpenAI for Countries
#43Hey sama, ballsy move!
Have you considered that this proposition is even too ridiculous for current reality?
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#44I guess Norway as first customer.
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#45> Partner with countries to help build in-country data center capacity. Except USA banned export of GPUs to like half of the European Union, let alone third-world countries.
Trump has announced plans to change that (this is news from today).
> The Trump administration plans to rescind Biden-era AI chip curbs as part of a broader effort to revise semiconductor trade restrictions that have drawn strong opposition from major tech companies and foreign governments, according to people familiar with the matter.
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#46> We want to help these countries, and in the process, spread democratic AI I'm reading this in the same voice as Helldivers 2 "managed democracy"
> spread democratic AI
Open weights and code and models? That's the only way to ensure sovereignty.
I think this company is a walking oxymoron.
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#47"We will trade control for datacenter subsidies"
Brilliant in a Bond villain way
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#48> We want to help these countries, and in the process, spread democratic AI I'm reading this in the same voice as Helldivers 2 "managed democracy"
They used the word "democratic" 8 times in that post. I'm not sure that word means what they think it means.
As opposed to those "unaligned" communist open-source models. As a proud freedom-loving citizen of the West you wouldn't want to support those now would you?
I'm reminded of the first half of this wonderful short-story that was shared on HN a year back https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/
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#49> Through formalized infrastructure collaborations, and in coordination with the US government, OpenAI will:
> Partner countries also would invest in expanding the global Stargate Project—and thus in continued US-led AI leadership and a global, growing network effect for democratic AI.
Yeah, good luck with that pitch... I have to assume that the target market for this page is not other countries, but the US leadership.
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#50I sure did not expect to see Trump's name used in a positive way when talking about supporting democracy.