alt Hacker NewsThis is such a silly story to begin with, all it really tells us is that OpenAI is taking a page from Anthropic's marketing strategy of pretending they're building Machine Jesus any day now, oh isn't that that scary? I bet you want to invest in something so powerful and scary...
And the reality is so banal, a useful tool that you nonetheless have to handhold like a schizophrenic on a bad day, checking all of their outputs. Not a bad tool within limits, but it sure isn't going to be racking up trillions in the time-frame it has to for this scheme to pay off.
Then again everyone seems to be rushing to IPO so I guess once the bag-holders are found the rest ceases to matter.
Huh? The wiki incident was discovered by independent investigators. OpenAI tried to cover it up and disputed the account from Reuters.
And the reason it is receiving so much attention is because not only is the technology being developed behaving in unanticipated ways that are very much not tool-like, but OpenAI is being completely reckless and not monitoring internal agent actions.
What would convince you that it is not a ploy for investment? What if the ongoing investigation by the coalition of state attorneys general were to prosecute the firm, or beyond that, it was shut down or broken up after enough popular backlash?