adekcz—thanks for writing this. I’m also horrified by OpenAI turning from well-intentioned to apparently reckless and sociopathic, in pushing forward towards AGI capabilities without any serious commitment to AI safety.
The question is whether withholding a bit of money from OpenAI will really change their behavior, or whether a ‘ChatGPT boycott’ based on safety concerns could be more effective if our money-withholding is accompanied by some noisier public signaling of our moral outrage. I’m not sure what this would look like, exactly, but I imagine it could include some coordination with the ‘Pause AI’ movement (active on X/Twitter). I think a public commitment to boycotting OpenAI (e.g. through social media posts) would be helpful—especially through channels that don’t normally attract much AI safety discussion (e.g. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram—in addition to X).
tldr: boycotts work best when we make a lot of noise about them, not when they’re just a private withdrawal of funding.
adekcz—thanks for writing this. I’m also horrified by OpenAI turning from well-intentioned to apparently reckless and sociopathic, in pushing forward towards AGI capabilities without any serious commitment to AI safety.
The question is whether withholding a bit of money from OpenAI will really change their behavior, or whether a ‘ChatGPT boycott’ based on safety concerns could be more effective if our money-withholding is accompanied by some noisier public signaling of our moral outrage. I’m not sure what this would look like, exactly, but I imagine it could include some coordination with the ‘Pause AI’ movement (active on X/Twitter). I think a public commitment to boycotting OpenAI (e.g. through social media posts) would be helpful—especially through channels that don’t normally attract much AI safety discussion (e.g. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram—in addition to X).
tldr: boycotts work best when we make a lot of noise about them, not when they’re just a private withdrawal of funding.
Agree, boycotts should be public, therefore my post :).
On the other hand, I don’t see myself being able to push this to the next level (very little personal fit). I would be very happy if someone did.