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Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by jrochkind1 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:34AM (#35275457)
Okay, but their actions are _not_ stopping AI research, they are doing plenty of AI research internally. They're just hindering competitors and non-profit researchers.

I suppose you could make an argument that nobody can be trusted to do AI research as responsibly as them, so that's why they should not share anything and should hinder others' research... but it kind of looks like plain old nothing-to-see-here profit-oriented decision to me. Which isn't necessarily a scandal, they are a profit-oriented company of course (although they try to take advantage of the misperception that they aren't).

But if they really took those "alignment" concerns seriously, wouldn't they be seriously slowing down or even stopping their own research too?

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Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by dmix on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:40AM (#35276506)
"Virtue signaling" is overused but highly relevant here. Absent some proof they've done anything at all to prevent an AI takeover (which surely would have to be open source to be valuable too right?).
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