Comment by SpicyLemonZest
5 days ago
It's inexcusable that the AI companies have not formed a united front against this. I've been skeptical of the idea that OpenAI leadership is outright MAGA, but even pure self-interest does not explain staying silent while the Pentagon demands autonomous killbots.
Brockman donated 25,000,000 dollars to the MAGA superpac, how much more 'outright' would you like him to be, haha.
This is not only a big donation. It is actually the BIGGEST donation by any single individual.
Shareholder value and MAGA value are a venn diagram of optical illusion.
He claimed, and until today I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, that he was trying to curry favor with a notoriously bribe-able President. Not exactly a paragon of moral virtue, but I wouldn't be able to do business with nearly any company in the US if I made that a dealbreaker. This clears the bar where I'm willing to cut ties and demand that everyone else do the same.
We must join with him, we must join with Sauron.
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