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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 205 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They went from standing with Anthropic to throwing them under the bus real fast

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 177 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] timestatic@feddit.org 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They probably have been working on a potential agreement with openai for a while now. They just hastily finished it in response to anthropic. But I don't know if they will keep the red lines anthropic has demanded in place

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

They won't.

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[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which they badly need, they are in an incredibly risky position right now. It's very disappointing, this deal might save them from collapse for quite a while.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The only disappointment, is that Altmans head is still attached to his shoulders.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

No, no, even if we get that wish I dont want the US state propping up AI longer

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Altman is a symptom, not the problem. The problem is capitalism.

[–] brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

That’s very true; I still would love to see him guillotined.

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 143 points 1 month ago (2 children)

mainstream

I'll believe that when my sisters start saying this. Till then, it's just us privacy fans screaming in a dark cave, enjoying the echo.

[–] Xorg_Broke_Again@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's always like this. We get a ton of articles on how everyone is suddenly boycotting/deleting [insert thing] but when you ask someone in real life, they usually have no idea what you're talking about.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

so explain it to them gently. you won't reach everyone, but you'll reach more people than accepting this status quo

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 81 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Windows Central shouldn't be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean it's at least accurate now, there is no defense when you are starting war with everyone

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[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Especially since the Trump admin already made it clear that they don’t respect preferred pronouns. Why should we use the DoD’s preferred pronouns of Department of War instead of the Department of Defense name it legally has? DoW is just DoD’s preferred pronoun.

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[–] raskal@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Canada recently has had its 2nd worst school shooting ever. The killer had many interactions with ChatGPT that warranted banning her account. A whistleblower has claimed that they wanted to inform Canada's police force of these comments but were denied by ChatGPT's management.

They had a chance to stop the death of 8 people, most of which were young children, but failed to do anything.

FUCK CHATGPT AND THOSE BASTARDS THAT RUN IT

[–] jagungal@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why would you not contact police? I understand that this is a systemic failure and blame does not lie with that employee but if others me I'd rather be out of a job than have those deaths on my conscience for the rest of my life.

[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's probabilities. If you report it you're 100% out of a job but only maybe prevented something bad from happening. If you don't report, you keep your job but maybesomething bad happens. Reliance on a job for survival shifts the decision even further to taking the course of action that'll keep you your job.

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[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sam Altman is objectively a bad human being.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sam Altman is just some fail upward money guy, he's been eventually removed from basically every prior position he has held.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

Seems like his career has largely been lying and making impossible promises, so. The folks who do that well always manage to exit the stage before the magic tincture is revealed to just be piss 🤷‍♂️

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[–] cloudskater@piefed.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 month ago

I cannot believe this is what it took for a boycott to go more mainstream. Tell me more about how so many people have no respect for the environment or the artists who's work they gleefully consume.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anthropic still is scum for being completely fine helping America oppress the rest of the world.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (22 children)

Anthropic is scum, accepting money from foreign dictators, forcing their software on minorities while insisting it was conscious and had emotions just like them, praising the Trump administration, making up scary stories to get more funding...

...In many ways, they're worse than OpenAI. They're just running with the same playbook that Sam Altman used to use to pretend he was a good guy.

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[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (11 children)

The Department of War isn't a real thing. Its called The Department of Defense. That's not my opinion either, its officially/legally called The Department of Defense.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Use for "all lawful means" is quite the grey area considering no one was arrested or fired, or any law updated, for what Snowden leaked. If the NSA does it, no one will arrest the NSA.

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[–] CanadianMade@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] InternetPerson@lemmings.world 35 points 1 month ago (20 children)

You should also stop using Google products for similar reasons.

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[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"You're absolutely right! That was a children's hospital, not a military base. Let's try that again!"

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

I think people are a little bit missing the important bit. This government wants to send out autonomous weapons along with mass surveillance. They'll just murder anyone they want, if the AI gets it right in the first place.

Here we are in Running Man and no one sees it coming. This is why Stephen King is so against this administration. He predicted it.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I can't believe people were paying for it in the first place.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

Dude the only guardrails are

  1. No fully automated killings

  2. No mass surveillance

You could literally do anything else, you could automate killing people with a person approving.

Trump booted anthropic because they couldn't lift these two guardrails. Fuck me

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

So many companies are cozying up to the fascist regime as this is the late stage of capitalism.

A list of some of these companies: https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2024200204296061089?s=20

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

List is hosted on a facism aligned owner's misinformation site

Ok

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[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

nice headline, but wtf is windows central?

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A Microsoft-oriented news outlet.

Think similar to MacRumors/9to5Mac/AppleInsider for Apple.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are so many levels to hell I haven't even heard of.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Yea, I can just imagine OpenAI is really struggling with their business decision.

On the one hand, they have multi-billion dollar contracts with the US Military that will make them all fabulously wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

On the other, they have a handful of individuals leaving that might amount to a few thousand dollars of lost revenue.

Gosh, it must sure have been a tough choice.

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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd argue that an armed uprising would have a greater effect than a smaller internet-based boycott but I'm just some random guy on some niche internet forum so... who's to say?

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[–] JigglypuffSeenFromAbove@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From OpenAI's statement:

We have three main red lines that guide our work with the DoW, which are generally shared by several other frontier labs:

• No use of OpenAI technology for mass domestic surveillance.

• No use of OpenAI technology to direct autonomous weapons systems.

• No use of OpenAI technology for high-stakes automated decisions (e.g. systems such as “social credit”).

It specifically states their AI can't/won't be used for surveillance and autonomous weapons. Of course I'm not saying I trust them, but isn't this the same thing Anthropic says they're against? What's the difference here or what did I miss?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anthropic put clauses in that were legally enforceable by future administrations. OpenAI says “yea we totally trust you bro”

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

I am canceling my subscription now. Fuckers.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Glad that I've switched platforms. sam altman should probably be in prison or something.

I've been using Venice lately, they claim (I have done zero research to determine if this is true) that they're privacy focused. They do run uncensored models, which is a big plus.

That said, I find myself using the lying machine less these days. It was like a fun video game when I first got my hands on it, entertaining for a while, and I'm moving on. Maybe I'm not imaginative enough to use it to the fullest potential, but I'm having more fulfillment actually writing and actually drawing (even though I am very bad at both).

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Anyone stockpiling ai prompt vulnerabilities for when we'll eventually need them to fight off some deathbots?

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