Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)

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      Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned.

      What a perfect sentence to sum up 2023 with.

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      Mr Altman, who founded Open AI which built chat bot ChatGPT, says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot.

      That last line kinda creeps me out.

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          Yeah that’s most most sci-fi dystopian article I’ve read in a while.

          The line where one of the people waiting to get their eyes scanned is well eye opening " I don’t care what they do with the data, I just want the money", this is why they want us poor, so we need money so badly that we will impatiently hand over everything that makes us.

          But we already happily hand over our DNA genome to private corporations, so what’s an eye scan gonna do…

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    That’s why they just removed the military limitations in their terms of service I guess…

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    I also want to sell my shit for every purpose but take zero responsibility for consequences.

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    Considering what we’ve decided to call AI can’t actually make decisions, that’s a no-brainer.

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    Shouldn’t, but there’s absolutely nothing stopping it, and lazy tech companies absolutely will. I mean we live in a world where Boeing built a plane that couldn’t fly straight so they tried to fix it with software. The tech will be abused so long as people are greedy.

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      So long as people are rewarded for being greedy. Greedy and awful people will always exist, but the issue is in allowing them to control how things are run.

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        More than just that, they’re shielded from repercussions. The execs involved with ignoring all the safety concerns should be in jail right now for manslaughter. They knew better and gambled with other people’s lives.

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      They fixed it with software and then charged extra for the software safety feature. It wasn’t until the planes started falling out of the sky that they decided they would gracefully offer it for free.

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    Has anyone checked on the sister?

    OpenAI went from interesting to horrifying so quickly, I just can’t look.

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    OpenAI went from an interesting and insightful company to a horrible and a weird one in a very little time.

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      People only thought it was the former before they actually learned anything about them. They were always this way.

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      Remember when they were saying GPT-2 was too dangerous to release because people might use it to create fake news or articles about topics people commonly Google?

      Hah, good times.

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      Yup, my job sent us to an AI/ML training program from a top cloud computing provider, and there were a few hospital execs there too.

      They were absolutely giddy about being able to use it to deny unprofitable medical care. It was disgusting.

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    Agreed, but also one doomsday-prepping capitalist shouldn’t be making AI decisions. If only there was some kind of board that would provide safeguards that ensured AI was developed for the benefit of humanity rather than profit…

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    I am sure Zergerberg is also claiming that they are not making any life-or-death decisions. Lets see you in a couple years when the military gets involved with your shit. Oh wait they already did but I guess they will just use AI to improve soldiers’ canteen experience.

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    Ummm…no fucking shit. Who was thinking that was a good idea?

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    So just like shitty biased algorithms shouldn’t be making life changing decisions on folks’ employability, loan approvals, which areas get more/tougher policing, etc. I like stating obvious things, too. A robot pulling the trigger isn’t the only “life-or-death” choice that will be (is!) automated.