Paris MarxFeb 23

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

https://disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-anti-human-worldview/

#tech #openai #genai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #samaltman #cdnpoli #canada

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview

OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

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Show threadDevinFeb 24
@parismarx Sam Altman is a lying sociopath, to be sure...but let's pump the brakes. You think a private company should be alerting governments of people's hypothetical thought-crimes? I think that is a horrible take. What happened in Canada is awful, but the answer isn't "expand the surveillance state."
Show threadParis MarxFeb 24
@devin_and_earth Respectfully, this is a stupid take. The modern tech industry is the surveillance state. ChatGPT and generative AI do not exist without mass data collection. This isn’t about thought crimes, it’s about people using technology in a way that presents a real threat to people’s lives. We have always had a balance between privacy and safety, and that doesn’t end because the internet and cyberlibertarian ideas that have been formed around it.
Show threadDevin

@parismarx Let me preface this by saying I am no champion of corporations, and I am certainly not a libertarian.

1. No, private industries are most certainly not the surveillance state—they are tools of it. When the state demands information from private companies, the companies hand it over. That very thing is happening with ICE right this moment to hunt down undocumented people.

2. So Google should start alerting governments of every potentially-dangerous series of search queries?

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