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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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Post by bugufu8f83 »

maplethorpe wrote: post #39
AlexeyBrin wrote: post #25

Nobody should have any illusion about the purpose of most business - make money. The "safety" is a nice to have if it does not diminish the profits of the business. This is the cold hard truth. If you start to look through the optics of business == money making machine , you can start to think at rational regulations to curb this in order to protect the regular people. The regulations should keep business in check wh…

It's not long ago they were a non-profit. This sudden change to a for-profit business structure, complete with "businesses exist to make money" defence, is giving me whiplash.

I find the whole thing pretty depressing. They went to all that effort with the organization and setup of the company at the beginning to try to bake this "good for humanity" stuff into its DNA and legal structure and it all completely evaporated once they struck gold with ChatGPT. Time and time again we see noble intentions being completely destroyed by the pressures and powers of capitalism.

Really wish the board had held the line on firing sama.

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

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Post by tyre »

I’m guessing this is tied to going public.

In the US, they would be sued for securities fraud every time their stock went down because of a bad news article about unsafe behavior.

They can now say in their S-1 that “our mission is not changing”, which is much better than “we’re changing our mission to remove safety as a priority.”

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

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Post by logicx24 »

sumeno wrote: post #70
optimalsolver wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The leaders of these LLM companies should be held criminally liable for their products in the same way that regular people would be if they did the same thing. We've got to stop throwing up our hands and shrugging when giant corporations are evil

Regular people would not be held liable for this. It would be a dubious case even if a human helped another human to do this.

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

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Post by edm0nd »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #35
lbeckman314 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://archive.is/fuJCe (Apologies if this archive link isn't helpful, the unlocked_article_code in the URL still resulted in a paywall on my side...)

We probably shouldn't be using the "archive" site that hijacks your browser into DDOSing other people. I'm actually surprised HN hasn't banned it.

eh, both ArchiveToday and gyrovague are shit humans. Its really just a conflict in between two nerds not "other people".

They need to just hug it out and stop doxing each other lol

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