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OpenAI’s ‘Red Lines’ Are Written In The NSA’s Dictionary — Where Words Mean What The NSA Wants Them To Mean (www.techdirt.com)

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Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance and autonomous weapons, then turned around and praised a competitor for signing a deal that supposedly preserved those exact same commitments.

This confused some people. Why would the Pentagon seek to destroy one company over the same terms it agreed to with its largest competitor just hours later?

There’s an answer though: 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 confirmed in declassified documents.

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[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Boycott them all..

Also: "In capitalism, the market decides. In oligarchy, connections and donations decide. It sure look like the US is transitioning from the former to the latter."

The Ideal of 'Capitalism' is nonsense and have always been. Rich Uckers using 'might is right' is the core of Capitalism - it is perpetual economic war with death, poverty and suffering while property changes hands - it's a War !! It's incredibly obnoxious to read these believers that still haven't figured out that the rich Unts are the ones that pay for the 'free market' flower-power propaganda. It's all a primitive scam - manufactured consent - that only benefits the 1%, but here we once again see one of the sad believers that can't understand what's happening with his pet idealized belief system - his pet religion..