because I made an error in my original press release
This was an honest mistake that you corrected. It is not at all what I’m talking about in the post. I want the community to pay attention to the final messaging being deceptive about the nature of OpenAI’s relationship with the Pentagon. The TL;DR of my post:
Good-hearted EAs lack the mechanisms to not output information that can mislead people. They organised a protest, with the messaging centred on OpenAI changing their documents to “work with the Pentagon”, while OpenAI only collaborates with DARPA on open-source cybersecurity tools and is in talks with the Pentagon about veteran suicide prevention. Many participants of the protest weren’t aware of this; the protest announcement and the press release did not mention this. People were misled into thinking OpenAI is working on military applications of AI. OpenAI still prohibits the use of their services to “harm people, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property”. If OpenAI wanted to have a contract with the Pentagon to work on something bad, they wouldn’t have needed to change the usage policies of their publicly available services and could’ve simply provided any services through separate agreements. The community should notice a failure mode and implement something that would prevent unilateral decisions with bad consequences or noticeable violations of deontology.
I am extremely saddened by the emotional impact this has on you. I did not wish that to happen and was surprised and confused by your reaction. Unfortunately, it seems that you still don’t understand the issue I’m pointing at; it is not the “charter” being in the original announcement, it’s the final wording misleading people.
The draft you sent me opened with how people were misled about the “charter” and alleged that I didn’t change the protest enough after fixing that mistake. I think you’re just very unclear with your criticism (and what I understand I simply disagree with, as I did when we spoke about this before the protest) while throwing around loaded terms like “deceptive”, “misleading”, and “deontologically bad” that will give a very untrue impression of me.
See my post here.
This was an honest mistake that you corrected. It is not at all what I’m talking about in the post. I want the community to pay attention to the final messaging being deceptive about the nature of OpenAI’s relationship with the Pentagon. The TL;DR of my post:
I am extremely saddened by the emotional impact this has on you. I did not wish that to happen and was surprised and confused by your reaction. Unfortunately, it seems that you still don’t understand the issue I’m pointing at; it is not the “charter” being in the original announcement, it’s the final wording misleading people.
The draft you sent me opened with how people were misled about the “charter” and alleged that I didn’t change the protest enough after fixing that mistake. I think you’re just very unclear with your criticism (and what I understand I simply disagree with, as I did when we spoke about this before the protest) while throwing around loaded terms like “deceptive”, “misleading”, and “deontologically bad” that will give a very untrue impression of me.