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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
@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."
@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.
@parismarx Does Meta screen and report their users this way? Can you cite examples of this supposed balance between safety and privacy you speak of? I'm genuinely asking.
Truly, I wish that people being put on watchlists was only ever for protection of the public, but then those surveillance practices get weaponized when malicious administrations take power.
@devin_and_earth Yes, Meta does. Google also reports searches in certain instances. At least in Canada, therapists and similar professions have an obligation to report if patients intend to commit harm to themselves or others. These things are all very commonplace.
