The US Defense Department's first direct partnership with Open AI fuels concerns over militarized technology– especially as similar systems have already been used to facilitate Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
On Monday, June 16, the United States Department of Defense signed a $200 million contract with OpenAI to deploy generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for military use, despite the company’s previous commitments not to develop AI tools for warfare.
According to the Pentagon, OpenAI—the US-based creator of ChatGPT—will “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.”
Under this cooperation, OpenAI plans to demonstrate how advanced AI can enhance administrative functions, such as healthcare for military service members and cyber defense.
Annnd "Open"AI goes full evil, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
And the military is going for this? Yikes.
"Ah, my mistake! I suppose that was a bunch of civilians with signs and not combatants with weapons after all. Let's try again. Anyway, is there anything else I can help you with?"
Now combine this with OpenAI's plan to make people wear 24/7 microphone bugs that transcribe all your conversations (See towards the end of the latest Ordinary Things video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuIMZBseAOM) and you get a wonderful dystopian surveillance machine that is a literal 1984 replica.
Does OpenAI make anything other than chatGPT? Because an LLM honestly didn't seem like a very good AI fit for such an industry that relies on accuracy.
So since I'm not really using any of these ai tools. Can someone explain to me if openai is "open source" as it suggests? If so can't you just see the source code in case they try to ruin it?
I guess an AI can never be truly open in a way? I know this is probably a red flag but I know that a lot of Linux distros which are completely open source are government funded too.
I mean, it’s not misfortune it’s an intentional act of deception; kind of like naming yourself national socialists while being racist brownshirts… it’s an intentionally obtuse lie!
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