Newsweek making it sound like Snowden is a James Bond villain issuing pronouncements from his skull-shaped island lair.
Posts like these really bring out the Nextdoor app type lemmy people. Everything's a conspiracy.
Point is it doesn't matter who they add to OpenAI, OpenAI is already a problem. There is no conspiracy, you missed the boat. Your data is already being scraped, traded and sold to the Nth degree by corporations, and the government just goes ahead and buys it instead of forming yet another agency to scrape it all themselves (yay, privatization?). OpenAI is just the next level of the same. Doesn't matter who is on the board, the damage has already been done. So Snowden is way behind the times and frankly his commentary is irrelevant - or at least nothing that the news hasn't been complaining about with the rampant theft of IP by AI makers for the last couple of years or more.
Snowden just said that they had gone "mask-off" - so I think it was just aimed at those who still refuses to believe it.
exactly, anyone trusting AI companies in general beforehand and being swayed by this one statement from Snowden, doesn’t understand the technology or environment enough to be effectively skeptical in the first place.
What are Nextdoor app type people?
Every "bang" they hear outside from a car backfire is gunfire. Every "boom" sound is a potential bomb. Every terrorist or rapist wants to visit your boring suburban neighborhood and is creeping around in broad daylight walking down the sidewalk. Every helicopter flying over is something nefarious. The government is out to get you. A police car mentioned going anywhere with the lights on must mean a horrific murder or "Praise jesus lord protect our police" followed by a blue line flag pic.
Every post warrants unsolicited derogatory political commentary, i.e. "Nice day outside..." followed by "Those fucking lying sleepy joe democrats are full of shit about climate change it's fine outside!" Or some unsolicited "praise Jesus its a nice day you wouldn't have the sun earth and stars if it weren't for Jesus praise God you're all sinners." with a crapton of emojis.
It's an awful place. I briefly tried it for yard sales and looking for services like tree trimming, but it's not worth it.
Dunno, but by their explanation it sounds like r/conspiracy aka the stupidest and most paranoid people alive.
So Snowden is way behind the times and frankly his commentary is irrelevant
This is some heavy Dunning-Kruger.
Strong down vote ratio...
Can't tell if "AI" bros or the spooks are butthurt today.
There are a significant number of people who also really hate Snowden for various reasons (he's a traitor, he ran to Russia, etc.) and don't care whether or not he's making a good point.
He didn’t really choose Russia, it was the only country that would protect him from rendition.
Not even that. He was headed to Cuba, the US government forced him to be in Russia.
"NSA leaker Edward Snowden got stuck at a Moscow airport after Cuba, feeling pressure from Washington, warned that it would not allow an Aeroflot flight from Russia to land in Havana if he were aboard"
And sadly Cuba is all too aware of how petty the USA can be.
I'm not justifying their reasons, I'm just explaining that's what some of them say.
Oh I know that Mr Squid. I was just adding some context. :)
AI bros. Most of their investment is wrapped up in OpenAI being glorified
Alternate explanation, from the normies: it's a purely speculative claim with minimal argument.
Yes, a speculative claim ... from someone who absolutely knows what the fuck they're talking about.
There is deff speculative element to it. We dont have view of the inner workings and unlikely to see it besides bread crumbs that get leaked over years and astroturfed by the fake news.
People still relying on propaganda networks do have weird idea that they knows what's up.. I guess it is easier to be simping for dudes in power after all. Makes you sleep better at night.
I guess someone here said that Snowden is behind the times and his comments are not relevant? And try to downplaying something bigger that Snowden might suggest.
Yeah I don't get it either
"do not ever trust [insert large corporation]"
FTFY
I asked AI what the torque spec was for my valve cover bolts and ruined my engine. 70ft pounds! I pulled the threads out at 20ft/lbs!
just kidding. im not that stupid.
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This actually makes me think OpenAI is a straight up scam; this is the Elizabeth Holmes strategy.
How naive would you have to be to trust them anyway?
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