alt Hacker News> OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them.
> The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject.
Seems pretty reasonable. Given everything that happened with Huggingface and similar incidents it’s clear that the team wasn’t doing shit.
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cyanydeez • today at 12:07 PM
Or it came to it's natural conclusion: "Yes, there are catastrophic risks"
But, you know, it's a business, so now it knows it has catastrophic risks. What, are you going to just stop building the torment nexus?
Or maybe they weren't allowed to do anything effective. I don't know why you give OpenAI such a big benefit of the doubt.