Comment by 0xDEAFBEAD
2 days ago
If that's the plan, today's failure by OpenAI looks really bad for any regulator who is trying to figure out whether to give OpenAI a license.
Any sort of warning or failure can always be written off as "marketing" to provide comfortable reassurance that there is no cause for alarm. There is an element of wishful thinking driving it, in my opinion.
What sort of warning or failure would be evidence against the "marketing" claims? Do we need to wait for a mass casualty event?
Best practice in safety engineering is to understand, diagnose, and respond to even small failures.
Why has Sam Altman worked to undermine doomers and downplay doom fears, if he benefits from incidents like this due to marketing?
https://xcancel.com/HumanHarlan/status/1965932275465597077#m
https://xcancel.com/AISafetyMemes/status/2062254769402699922...
There is no regulatory scenario where OpenAI doesn't get whatever they want. They are more a part of the US administration than not at this point. You would have to ignore all evidence to suggest that behaving responsibly has any effect on political outcomes in 2026.