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Disturbing and misleading efforts to defame Helen Toner through misdirection
OpenAI’s new board just made its loyalties clear. We should all be worried/
The 3.5 API (geared towards programmers as a backend tool) was available beforehand, but that’s not of course the consumer-directed product with gimmicks like word-by-word typing to give a false impression of humanness that ultimately went viral. It is the latter, and not the former, that led the late Dan Dennett to write an essay about the perils of counterfeit humans, arguing that “Companies using AI to generate fake people are committing an immoral act of vandalism, and should be held liable.” The Board should have been apprised that this was in the works. If they cannot assemble a board that respects the legal filings they made, and cannot behave in keeping with their oft-repeated promises, they must dissolve the nonprofit, exactly as the organization Public Citizen has argued.
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