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Yeah… Microsoft and Google have a list of employees to fire now.
Trump will back off to some extent, to avoid inflaming stock markets (and his Big Tech friends heavily invested in Anthropic tooling).
Anthropic will fire a few people. OpenAI will raise money somehow.
That’s about it.
This was the red line for the techbros? This was a bridge to far? Don’t get me wrong, it’s good that they didn’t fold on this point… but fuck, would have been nice if they had taken exception to any of the thousands of red lines the regime has crossed up until now.
They're all invested in each other, a threat to one is a threat to all and up until now the regime hasn't threatened their investments.
Seriously there's a graph somewhere showing who's invested in what and basically it's all just one thing now. I don't know why they maintain the charade of being separate companies.
And the reason they don't want their technology being used to kill people is because they don't trust the administration to keep it to foreign countries in the middle East where no one cares what happens. They'll use it in the United States and everyone will know who's technology is powering their drones.
All that's happening is that financial self-interest and ethics both give the same answer in this scenario.
Dario Amodei [...] said he does not want the company’s A.I. to be used to surveil Americans or in autonomous weapons, saying this could “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”
This is absolutely reasonable and I support this position.
Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said in a memo to employees this week that “we have long believed that A.I. should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.”
But I don't trust this guy who shows regularly that he wants to be the ruler of the whole world by means of his own AI.
This stuff is really scary when you think about it. If we keep getting closer to a reality where technology can silently monitor your every thought, with analysis and automation becoming evermore efficient, what’s bound to happen so long as the only thing stopping it from being used against us is moral standing? Eventually, someone somewhere can make something so trivially that it tips the scales in their favor so long as they lack the moral standing to not do so. Technology is a unique kind of threat, given especially the glorification that’s often given to its innovation. Skepticism could have been applied earlier.
Yeah but he doesn't want Trump to have the technology.
Srs Ted Faro vibes, though less arrogant.
This is like Alien vs Predator, whoever wins, we all lose
Trump wants to use Grok for all things government, but isn't Grok one of the most biased and poorly performative AIs?
It'll fit right in. They're looking to automate their corruption.
but isn't Grok the most biased
ftfy
That first part is likely a large selling point.
Has "performance" or "merit" meant much to Trump for anything else?
How is he not dead yet jfc
