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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

Wait why would they expect it to leak? (assuming that mentioning it isn't just some marketing stunt, which it probably is)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 7 hours ago

They asked a chatbot and the chatbot is trained on shadowrun and cyberpunk2077 sourcebooks.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 17 hours ago

Ed Zitron might have got hold of it, if his bsky is anything to go by.

We could be feasting soon!

[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

Draft filings involve feedback from the SEC, so I think they may be throwing shade on government employees, whom they can't fire or control directly.

But I'm also thinking they may be salty about the aforementioned "as soon as Friday" articles, and then Anthropic beating them to filing.

Hard to tell how much of it is what, they're toxic inside and out.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 3 points 16 hours ago

IANAL, but my understanding is that companies are allowed to keep confidential the fact that they even filed the S-1. That's how I read OpenAI's statement. But it's not completely clear what "it" means in "we expect it to leak".