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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

sammy boi is giving up on the pretense that any of this was about enriching lives, and is now only focusing on the eyegrab (archive)

anyone wanna take bets on how much pearlclutching surprisedpikachu we'll see

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

anyone wanna take bets on how much pearlclutching surprisedpikachu we’ll see

I suspect we'll see a fair amount. Giving some specifics:

  1. I suspect we'll see Sammy accused of endangering all of humanity for a quick buck - taking Altman at his word, OpenAI is attempting to create something which they themselves believe could wipe out humanity if they screw things up.

  2. I expect calls to regulate the AI industry will louden in response to this - what Sammy's doing here is giving the true believers more ammo to argue Silicon Valley may potentially trigger the robot apocalypse that Silicon Valley themselves have claimed AI is capable of unleashing.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

perhaps saltman will have enough audacity to promote this as a way to ensure that some account is owned by a human, after flooding every corner of internet with ai slop and fake accounts

[-] self@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

that’s almost certainly the plan — I remember there was some horrific “proof of humanity” shit tied in with this, supposedly so that you could tell if you’re interacting with a human rather than a chatbot. there’s so many problems with that technically of course, not least of which is the chatbot guy also owning the proof of not-bot, but there’s deeper horrifying implications: this is the technology conservatives have been begging for to block access to “adult sites” (see: LGBTQ+ spaces and associates) and “protect voting” (see: purge voter registries). that the technology is fucking stupid and doesn’t work doesn’t matter to them — as always with technofascism, that’s a feature.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Kinda surprised World(Coin) was still ongoing, thought saltman would have quietly buried the project now he's busy shilling ChatGPT

[-] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

The 0.000001% chance that this thing morphs into the new global reserve currency is enough for a proper rationalist to keep it trundling along, don't you think?

Also don't underestimate the value of having someplace to park useful cronies you don't currently have any other job for

[-] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Create the problem and sell the solution.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Did Sam anticipate the easily foreseeable avalanche of AI slop, decide that proof of humanity was a worthwhile investment, and only then notice that all the suggested search completions for "proof of" were crypto?

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Worldcoin has been around for longer than OpenAI. Sama is the OG pivot-from-crypto-to-AI.

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