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📬 Our open letter calling for transparency from @OpenAI has just reached 10,000 signatures 📈
From nonprofit organizations to famous actors to the world's most cited scientist, thousands are united behind this message. See what they're all saying:
openai-transparency.org
Perhaps we aren't the only civil society group that feels this way.
In the first 48 hours of the Grok 4 model card going online, it was quietly changed (no update to the "last updated" timestamp) to remove mention of the UK AISI's testing (and implicit approval) of the model.
Today, The Midas Project joined a group of 15 organizations led by the Consumer Federation of America, calling on state and federal regulators to investigate and enforce laws against xAI for their promotion, creation, and facilitation of sharing non-consensual intimate imagery.…
NEW: For Humanity EP68
"Forcing Sunlight Into OpenAI"
I talk with Tyler Johnston of the @TheMidasProj about the open letter and OpenAI's "transparency."
youtu.be/jKb1wk1CTRM?si…
Since launching less than 48 hours ago, over 2,500 new signatories have joined our letter‼️
Notable newcomers include journalist Matthew Yglesias and Turning award winner Yoshua Bengio, the most cited computer scientist of all time.
Our many signatories probably don't agree on…
Since launching less than 48 hours ago, over 2,500 new signatories have joined our letter‼️
Notable newcomers include journalist Matthew Yglesias and Turning award winner Yoshua Bengio, the most cited computer scientist of all time.
Our many signatories probably don't agree on…
Can we please get some journalist and elected-leader attention on this? OpenAI is trying to steal several hundred billion dollars that belong to the public; the numbers alone should command attention.
Can we please get some journalist and elected-leader attention on this? OpenAI is trying to steal several hundred billion dollars that belong to the public; the numbers alone should command attention.
Former OpenAI employees, whistleblowers, and 1000+ others including us, signed on because the company’s secrecy — and retreat from its founding principles as it restructures — demands a response.
openai-transparency.org
LOL even Stephen Fry is now signing open letters about OpenAI's 'restructure'.
Clever to merely insist they answer these 7 questions because:
1. It's v easy to answer if the public isn't being ripped off
2. But super awkward otherwise
Second sentence is blistering:
"OpenAI…
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