OpenAI quietly removed a ban on “military and warfare” use from its usage policy, as part of a major rewrite to make the policy “clearer” and “more readable”
OpenAI this week quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology …
The Intercept Sam Biddle
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Discussion
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@abeba.bsky.social
Dr Abeba Birhane
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OpenAI this werk quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology for military purposes from its usage policy, which seeks to dictate how powerful and immensely popular tools like ChatGPT can be used. — https://theintercept.com/...
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@jessfromonline
Jess
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i've never witnessed an event more inevitable than this one, and i never will
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@mark_riedl
Mark Riedl
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Somebody wants a government contract
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@smtuffy
Sean Tuffy
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Larry Summer already making an impact!
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@jathansadowski
Jathan Sadowski
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It's so great being a “nonprofit” military contractor with a “fiduciary responsibility to humanity”
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@samfbiddle
Sam Biddle
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This new paper by @AnkaReuel @MLamparth et al. on using LLMs for military decision making could not be more relevant re: OpenAI's policy change. https://arxiv.org/... [image]
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@grady_booch
Grady Booch
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Yes, because introducing agents prone to hallucinations is such a useful addition to the theater of war.
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@six6jiang
@six6jiang
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reading through this, and tbh AI shouldn't even be used in legal wars. obama's drone strikes were legal, emphasized surgical precision, and still killed ten times more than bush. AI should not be making life or death decisions on any level [image]
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@samfbiddle
Sam Biddle
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Here's the section of the OpenAI policy on banned usage that was deleted two days ago. In its place is a much more ambiguous general ban on causing “harm” and a very narrow mention of weapons development [image]
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@samfbiddle
Sam Biddle
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OpenAI quietly deleted its ban on “military and warfare” applications from its permissible uses policy in a revision this week https://theintercept.com/...