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Nasrudith on March 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI sold its soul for $1B (2021)

Wow somebody "AI safety/ethics" actually said the quiet part out loud! That they are so superstitious, ignorant, and cowardly that they equate language models with demons. What is up next, declaring reading and writing demonic?

flangola7 on March 15, 2023 [–]

It's literally a quote from Elon Musk right before he dumped in $100M to help OpenAI start.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/26/elon-musk-compares-buildin...

Maybe avoid flying off the handle before you've done so much as a Google search?

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