OpenAI and the DOD agree to add more surveillance protections to their AI deal; sources say Sam Altman approached the DOD's Emil Michael to rework the contract
OpenAI and the Pentagon have agreed to strengthen their recently agreed contract, following widespread backlash …
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Discussion
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
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In the last few days, OpenAI and its executives have claimed that its DoW deal prevents its models being used for mass domestic surveillance. As I write in a lengthy explainer for @ReadTransformer today, that appears to be misleading at best. [image]
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
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A welcome update! Also confirms that OpenAI's statements on what the original deal did were not accurate.
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@bindureddy
Bindu Reddy
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Great to see OpenAI clarify and explicitly re-write the terms of their government deal! They explicitly ban their AI from being used for mass surveillance and by intelligence service Good for them 👏👏
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@obrien
Chris O'Brien
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@Jessicalessin Emil Michael: A study in moral bankruptcy. [image]
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@buccocapital
@buccocapital
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Strategic miscalculations from OpenAI starting to add up: 1. Taking on Google and Apple and Meta at the same time 2. Public crash out on prominent shareholder's podcast 3. DoW contract
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@jessicalessin
Jessica Lessin
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For people just getting to know the Department of War's Emil Michael there are two big things you need to know about his time as the no 2 to Kalanick at Uber. 1/ he was the architect of Uber's war chest. In this respect he was the sam altman before sam altman, scouring the
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@natseckatrina
@natseckatrina
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@ShakeelHashim @ReadTransformer New language reinforces that domestic surveillance is disallowed under this agreement, including involving commercially acquired information. See @sama 's post.
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@mattzeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin
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is there any software product that sells to the government that users like as much as claude?
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
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Claude has fans in DHHS. [image]
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@bendreyfuss
Ben Dreyfuss
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Claude is so much better than ChatGPT. Jesus Christ lol. I didn't join it because of some hippie dippy nonsense about pentagon contracts. I joined it for the normal reason (people on twitter said it was good). And damn howdy it sure is better than ChatGPT
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@jessicalessin
Jessica Lessin
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2/ he was notorious as the exemplar of Uber's aggressive culture. Someone under him was accused of accessing a rape victim's confidential medical records (Uber settled) and he ultimately resigned around the same time as Kalanick due to the company's myriad scandals.
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@kevincollier
Kevin Collier
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Sam Altman just said he has tweaked his deal with the Pentagon and wrote a list of things he says are part of it, and he chose to include this really great line: — “One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday.”
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
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prohibits ‘deliberate’ tracking and surveillance, and “intentionally” using them for domestic surveillance. very easy to get around! [embedded post]
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r/ChatGPT
r
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Sam Issues follow up on DOW Deal
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@racebannon
Race Bannon
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“The problem with telling everyone what they want to hear is that eventually reality catches up with you. The people who will live under AI-powered surveillance, and the people in the flight path of AI-assisted drone swarms...” — www.platformer.news/openai-penta...