"...safety has taken ‘a backseat to shiny products’

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https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24159095/openai-jan-leike-superalignment-sam-altman-ai-safety

Joking aside... Toxic tech companies are trying to create the illusion of growth by chasing after whatever the latest stupid tech 'trend" is, the same way McDonalds creates the illusion of growth by opening 5 or 6 restaurants in every small town.

OpenAI researcher resigns, claiming safety has taken ‘a backseat to shiny products’

Jan Leike criticized his former employer OpenAI, claiming a need to “prioritize” preparing for the implications of AGI, or artificial general intelligence.

The Verge

They don't care about the Enshittification they create /enable
- NFT's, crypto
- AR/VR, Metaverse
- mass layoffs
- and now they're jamming shitty ML into everything and claiming that it's #ArtificialIntelligence

They don't care that much of this useless shit is based on stolen creative works.

They don't care about the massive amount of #WealthExtraction or #eWaste that these useless pursuits create

in 2 years, we'll be onto the next useless trend and all this shit will be tossed in a dump