Ok come on, this has gotta be a regulatory capture
stunt. None of this is surprising or particularly dangerous.
You can do this for literally any topic. Choose something
lawmakers are scared of, write a scary paper showing how GPT (“research preview only” of course) can assist with it, and make big vague statements calling for an urgent need for more safety work in the area. Since uncensored GPT will talk about everything, this works for every topic!
Make no mistake folks, the OpenAI “safety” budget is entirely about PR and squashing open source AI.
You can do this for literally any topic. Choose something lawmakers are scared of, write a scary paper showing how GPT (“research preview only” of course) can assist with it, and make big vague statements calling for an urgent need for more safety work in the area. Since uncensored GPT will talk about everything, this works for every topic!
Make no mistake folks, the OpenAI “safety” budget is entirely about PR and squashing open source AI.