OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are

Last week I covered Anthropic's submission to the request for suggestions for America's action plan. I did not love what they submitted, and especially disliked how aggressively they sidelines existential risk and related issues, but given a decision to massively scale back ambition like that the suggestions were, as I called them, a ‘least you can do’ agenda, with many thoughtful details.

OpenAI took a different approach. They went full jingoism in the first paragraph, framing this as a race in which we must prevail over the CCP, and kept going. A lot of space is spent on what a kind person would call rhetoric and an unkind person corporate jingoistic propaganda.

OpenAI Requests Immunity

Their goal is to have the Federal Government not only not regulate AI or impose any requirements on AI whatsoever on any level, but [...]

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(00:05) OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are

(00:50) OpenAI Requests Immunity

(01:49) OpenAI Attempts to Ban DeepSeek

(02:48) OpenAI Demands Absolute Fair Use or Else

(04:05) The Vibes are Toxic On Purpose

(05:49) Relatively Reasonable Proposals

(07:55) People Notice What OpenAI Wrote

(10:35) What To Make of All This?

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