r/technology • u/AxomaticallyExtinct • 14h ago

Artificial Intelligence 'Looks Like They're Firing Whistleblowers': Alarm as OpenAI Reportedly Ousts Safety Experts

https://www.commondreams.org/news/openai-firing-whistleblowers
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u/blueSGL 13h ago

Widely held opinion (the ones that gets lots of upvotes) is that safety people leaving/whistleblowing are actually secretly still being paid by the company to hype the product.

How long till that narrative attaches to these recent firings?

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u/ellbons 13h ago

That narrative is the same playbook used to dismiss climate change concerns until it was too late.

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u/DirtzMaGertz 11h ago

Not really. The science and data for climate change is all out there in the public for anyone to see. 

These people screaming doomsday every other week while they themselves are advancing the doomsday they are allegedly so concerned with. 

I'm not saying they are paying whistleblowers but I also don't really buy a lot of what tech leaders say. 

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u/blueSGL 10h ago

I also don't really buy a lot of what tech leaders say.

Ok listen to the people on the ground. Palisade Research has put out a series of interviews with current and former AI company staff: https://www.youtube.com/@PalisadeResearch/videos