Comment by Planktonne
17 hours ago
Nonsense; the claim was that they wouldn't do anything that would mean they'd be
> risking massive lawsuits and a total loss of trust
Evidence of the massive lawsuits and lack of trust seems pretty relevant.
17 hours ago
Nonsense; the claim was that they wouldn't do anything that would mean they'd be
> risking massive lawsuits and a total loss of trust
Evidence of the massive lawsuits and lack of trust seems pretty relevant.
By "loss of trust", I meant that this is something they would risk losing a lot of users over, which isn't the case with the other lawsuits. There is a massive distinction between fighting third parties in a legal grey area and committing blatant fraud against your own users. Even if you have no regards for ethics, intentionally shipping a noop "do not train" toggle offers negligible upside for a massive downside.
They're being sued for several issues that resulted in the deaths of users; that's not fraud, but it is against their users.
The parallel still holds, and the information is still on the page I linked.
From OpenAI's point of view, the risks are not comparable at all:
1) Extreme edge case affecting a handful of users, vs millions of users using the data sharing opt out.
2) The deaths are unintentional.
3) They probably won't lose any users over this.
4) They will likely win the lawsuits. Even if they lose or settle, the financial impact will be immaterial.
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