Sam Altman: evaluation

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…Because all you’re saying is you’re not going to stop people, right? Well, we used to not a long time — well, that’s not totally fair. We’re going to allow more than we did in the past. A very important principle to me is that we treat our adult users like adults and that people have a very high degree of privacy with their AI, which we need legal change for, and also that people have very broad bounds of how they’re able to use it. To me, this should be one of the easiest things to agree on by most people in the tech industry or even most people in the US government. I kind of dashed this tweet off and closed my computer, and it didn’t even hit my mind that it was going to be, really, a firestorm. It was that we made a decision, which I also think was a fair one, over the summer, that because there were new problems, and that particularly because we wanted to protect teenage users, we were going to heavily restrict ChatGPT, which is also always a very unpopular thing to do, and along with the rolling out of age-gating and some of these mental health mitigations, we were going to bring back and in some cases increase freedom of use for adults. I was like, “Yes, I’ll tell people that’s coming because the first model update is shipping soon, but this should be a nonissue.” Boy, did I get that one wrong. I think maybe it’s just, people don’t believe in freedom of expression as much as they say they do. That was my opinion, yes.…

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