Thanks for sharing, I really appreciate your committment, and that you announce it.
Fwiw, my immediate reaction is that this type of protest might be a little too soon and it will cause more ridicule and backlash because the general public’s and newsmedia’s impression is that there is currently no immediate danger. Would be interested in learning more about the timing considerations. Like, I’d imagine that doing this barricading in the aftermath of some concrete harm happening would make favorable reporting for newsmedia much more likely, and then you could steer the discourse towards future and greater harms.
I personally think it would be helpful to put more emphasis on how OpenAI’s reckless scaling and releases of models is already concretely harming ordinary folks (even though no major single accident has shown up yet).
Eg.
training on personal/copyrighted data
job losses because of the shoddy replacement of creative workers (and how badly OpenAI has treated workers it paid)
school ‘plagiarism’, disinformation, and deepfakes
Thanks for sharing, I really appreciate your committment, and that you announce it.
Fwiw, my immediate reaction is that this type of protest might be a little too soon and it will cause more ridicule and backlash because the general public’s and newsmedia’s impression is that there is currently no immediate danger. Would be interested in learning more about the timing considerations. Like, I’d imagine that doing this barricading in the aftermath of some concrete harm happening would make favorable reporting for newsmedia much more likely, and then you could steer the discourse towards future and greater harms.
Thanks for the kind words!
I personally think it would be helpful to put more emphasis on how OpenAI’s reckless scaling and releases of models is already concretely harming ordinary folks (even though no major single accident has shown up yet).
Eg.
training on personal/copyrighted data
job losses because of the shoddy replacement of creative workers (and how badly OpenAI has treated workers it paid)
school ‘plagiarism’, disinformation, and deepfakes
environmental harms of scaling compute.