OpenAI's “red lines” in its DOD agreement effectively adopt the words that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the very things they appear to prohibit
Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance …
Techdirt Mike Masnick
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Discussion
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@seanhodgdon.com
Sean Hodgdon
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Trust the NSA? In this economy? [embedded post]
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@masnick.com
Mike Masnick
on bluesky
And another one from me: I explain why OpenAI claiming it had the same red lines as Anthropic is... not accurate. And how it's letting the NSA define terms that the NSA likes to define differently than the common understanding in the English language. [embedded post]
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@cassandroid.substack.com
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#altmanAI is FULL OF SHIT. — the original line was “no US mass surveillance” + “no fully autonomous weapons”, but also “within legal boundaries”. — this is important and does not get mentioned enough. the regime is breaking the law *all the time*. and altmanAI chose to “tru…
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@BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu
Christine Hall
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The words in OpenAI's contract likely don't mean what most people think they mean. This isn't speculation about future abuse. It's the documented operating procedure of the NSA for decades—a practice exposed repeatedly by whistleblowers, litigated in courts, and eventually conf…