OpenAI Researcher Says He Quit When He Realized the Upsetting Truth

https://futurism.com/openai-researcher-quit-realized-upsetting-truth

by croes • 2 years ago

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Anticlickbait:

A former OpenAI worker says he quit the company after realizing that it was putting safety on the back burner to pursue profit

dinobones• 2 years ago

The amount of self righteousness and hubris that these people have is amazing. Just like that "ex Google engineer" that talked to Lambda and claimed it sentient or whatever.

Everyone wants to quit, write a book, and then grift "muh AI safety" because that's probably more lucrative than working a 9-7 job that requires impact.

xyst• 2 years ago

Did he “quit” or disgruntled:

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that he was dissolving the safety-oriented Superalignment team — which Saunders was once a part of — and installing himself at the helm instead.

Regardless, I do share the same sentiment regarding this current AI bubble/hype.

It’s a glorified search engine right now that I have to triple check to make sure it didn’t hallucinate.

drewcoo2• 2 years ago

Presumably one does not quit unless one is disgruntled. These things are not mutually exclusive.

tetrisgm2• 2 years ago

The former employee accused OpenAI of "prioritizing getting out newer, shinier product".

God forbid a tech company tries to make newer shinier products. Maybe you're in the wrong business.

drewcoo2• 2 years ago

https://openai.com/about/

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

How does God feel about lying? Maybe OpenAI prays to other gods.

tetrisgm2• 2 years ago

Completely off topic response and escalation.

God is pretty chill with lying, since the bible has over 5000 contradictions. https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/biblical-contrad...

middlefing• 2 years ago

God forbid a tech company tries to make newer shinier products.

Thing is though, they never improve. It's all gotten worse.

nunez• 2 years ago

Yes, except they were a non-profit AI research group who decided to flip the "profit" switch, with their existing staff, who were mostly researchers.

OpenAI Researcher Says He Quit When He Realized the Upsetting Truth

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