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Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by thisisit on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:25PM (#47257556)
Most likely scenario is that if it does something “unlawful” and found out - claim that “These machines are black boxes and they don’t know what went wrong. They will set up an investigative committee and find out.”
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by genxy on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:54PM (#47257727)
When shit hits the fan they are going to blame AI, but then not even use hand sanitizer. They will 100% be using OAI as a scapegoat, although I'd like to see the OAI goat stay and someone else run into the woods.

All Lawful Use is a tautology with fascists because they cannot break laws by definition.

Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by delaminator on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:08AM (#47258975)
Yeah, here's some examples of all these fascists doing exactly that:

Soviet Union - The show trials of the 1930s were conducted with full legal apparatus: confessions, judges, verdicts. Stalin's purges operated through legally constituted troikas. Entirely "lawful" by Soviet law.

East Germany (DDR) - The Stasi's surveillance and harassment programmes were codified in law. When the wall fell, many Stasi officers genuinely argued their conduct was legal under GDR statute: a defence that West German courts largely rejected.

Castro's Cuba - Mass executions after the revolution were conducted by legally constituted revolutionary tribunals. Castro explicitly defended this on legality grounds when challenged by foreign press in 1959.

Chavez/Maduro's Venezuela - Suppression of opposition media, jailing of political opponents was consistently defended as operating within Venezuelan law, which was progressively rewritten to make it so. Classic self-referential legality.

Mao's Cultural Revolution - The revolutionary committees had legal standing. Persecution of intellectuals and landlords proceeded through formal (if kangaroo) legal processes.

Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by oscaracso on Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:02AM (#47259813)
You should ask the language model that output this text the definition of 'whataboutism,' and if the comment you've posted responds meaningfully to the discussion at hand.
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by abustamam on Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:38AM (#47260061)
I think similar to how AI-generated comments are frowned upon, "this comment was generated by Ai" comments should also be frowned upon. It's really annoying to see a well written comment and replies that don't address the comment but just accuse the poster of having used Ai to generate the comment.
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by delaminator on Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:20AM (#47259940)
you should ask the GP about his use of the word fascist on everything he doesn't like.

> if the comment you've posted responds meaningfully to the discussion at hand.

https://mirror.org/

Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by mikkupikku on Thursday March 05, 2026 @06:57AM (#47260600)
Nothing deep going on there. Fascism in modern informal parlance is a synonym for authoritarianism. Those who object most loudly to Stalin being called a fascist are usually themselves actually fascists, or stalinists. Everybody else gets it.
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by delaminator on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:07AM (#47261697)
"We use different definitions now, fascism is things I don't like."
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by mikkupikku on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:34PM (#47264624)
Yes, it has become a general use pejorative. At least in this case it's being used to refer to murderous authoritarians.
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by delaminator on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:58PM (#47267191)
you have upped the ante
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by mikkupikku on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:09AM (#47273503)
There are no stakes to this conversation.
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by sebastiennight on Thursday March 05, 2026 @06:28AM (#47260393)
> you should ask the GP about his use of the word fascist on everything he doesn't like.

If mirror dot org actually existed, you might want to look into it, because your long list of examples has one related to 1930s Germany, and the rest has nothing to do with the political definition of "fascism"?

Your point about legality was valid, but you're undermining it with the sarcasm.

Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by genxy on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:20AM (#47263569)
Everything I don't like is pretty broad brush. I have only used it with the Trump regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-su...

Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by delaminator on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:36AM (#47272479)
Oh no, it's retarded!
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by nso on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:37AM (#47257933)
* spawn 8 investigative agents
Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by n6hdhf on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:53AM (#47258414)
More like they will feed machine bullshit like WMDs exist in Fiji. My gut says so. My mom always believes me. Machine will call it out. Then they want overide. Machine will log it. Then they want an erase log button etc. Institutions and rules didnt fall from the sky. It evolved to damp the damage caused by such behavior.