alt Hacker NewsThat is both a yikes (towards Apple) and very unethical (towards OpenAI and the engineers who did this). Why do people do these things? Do you have no shame that you might have a harder time landing future jobs if you're perceived as someone who might sell out your future employer on a whim and steal proprietary information?
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halfmatthalfcat • today at 4:35 PM
They probably were presented with huge comp packages which made bending ethics incredibly easy.
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alwa • today at 4:35 PM
Future jobs? I thought AGI was the future of work!
And plus, their duty is to a higher cause! All humanity needs them to win, so that the superintelligence is “aligned” to their superior values… like “all’s fair in love and war”! (/s)
…rumblings of “divine mandate” in there somewhere…
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"Why do people do these things"
Money, ideology, coercion, and ego.