alt Hacker NewsWhy?
Why do you not buy it and why do you think OpenAI is doing the best they reasonably can? Do you have reasons, or is that just something your gut tells you?
They're a new, fast-moving company exploring a completely new technology domain. They're facing existential competition and a ticking clock to make good against unprecedented investment. They have a countless competing priorities and are still discovering the capabilities and consequences of their research, product, and business choices every day.
How do you get from there to "the best they reasonably can" and "nor within their power to fix"? Those feel like very conclusive answers for a field, and business, that's about as far on the frontier as anything we've seen in decades.
They're also telling everyone that it is going to kill everybody and take all the jobs. They also say that it'll fix all the problems. And I'm not saying "they" as in a disorganized group of people (e.g. "HN"), I'm saying "they" as in literally multiple people have said all of these things. Not the union of multiple people, they (Altman, Dario, Musk, etc) have independently said all three of these things.
I think my favorite part is how often they talk about the importance of AI safety and then act with absolute disregard for AI safety. I'm not sure why people judge these companies by what comes out of their mouths and don't judge instead by what they actually do. I thought everyone around here was fixated on "results".