OpenAI: AI Transparency, But Not At Home
Well, it looks like we’ve got a spicy helping of corporate hide and seek on our hands, folks! OpenAI, those ambitious folks on a mission to make sure artificial intelligence (AI) benefits all of humanity, have found themselves in a bit of a stir. They’ve always claimed their governing documents were transparent and open to the public. But when WIRED played the eager journalist and requested a peek, the request was met with a hasty “no can do.” Let’s break down this delicious dish of drama.
Key Points:
- OpenAI, the self-prescribed white knights of AI, are known for their mission to ensure AI advantages everyone, not just tech giants and their money-stuffed wallets.
- Touting transparency, OpenAI has claimed that their guiding papers were an open book for everyone to peruse. Kinda like a free-checkout library, but for policy documents.
- However, our intrepid heroes at WIRED strolled up and asked to see these oh-so-public documents… and were swiftly denied. Awkward silence, anyone?
- This tastes like a hearty spoonful of corporate irony, given the whole “transparency” ethos. It’s like shouting from the rooftops about your new diet while secretly hoarding a stash of Twinkies.
Final Thoughts:
In the end, while OpenAI is certainly doing some incredible work in the AI field, their actions seem a bit more closed-book than common good. It’s like being promised unlimited access to the cookie jar, only to find it locked away in a cupboard – disappointing, to say the least. For an organization committed to transparency, the denial of public access to their governing documents seems a scooch hypocritical. Maybe their next AI development can autotune their corporate transparency? Now that’s a thought, folks!
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https://www.wired.com/story/openai-scrapped-promise-disclose-key-documents/
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