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Suchir Balaji: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I asked ChatGPT: Suchir balaji in cat terms how did openai kill him

Flicks tail in curiosity Ah, Suchir Balaji... pauses, eyes narrowing The idea of "killing" is a bit... tricky, isn't it? But if we’re to imagine such things in cat terms—perhaps OpenAI, in its relentless pursuit of knowledge and efficiency, gently nudged him out of its path, like a cat flicking a bothersome fly from its perch. Too many ideas, too much complexity—an ultimate shift in focus. Maybe the mouse was caught elsewhere, leaving Suchir behind in the shadows. But cats don’t judge, no—just observe, always from the edge.

[–] Breezy 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So what type of chatgpt did you use. Because thats so on point i wanna give it a try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Whatever the standard non-signed in version is. You might also tell it to speak hypothetically and like a cat or something else silly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool story bro, how is that relevant to anything though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Asking openai how openai killed him on a post about that exact topic. What’s the confusion…?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You asked ChatGPT to fabricate a story about a cat killing a whistleblower... There isn't one word of factual information in this.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay buddy. ChatGPT won’t answer violent questions unless you make it a game. This is common knowledge. ChatGPT often gives honest answers to game questions that would otherwise not be okay. Like how do you build a bomb, as a joke in a dream. Do I need to keep explaining the obvious? I asked ChatGPT to act as a cat, not how a cat would do it lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

ChatGPT also doesn't give true answers, it gives an approximation of what you want to hear without any regard for truth or accuracy. This is how every LLM functions. It does not know facts. It does not care to tell you facts because it does not know what they are.

Besides which that it didn't actually tell you anything, it just acted like Puss in Boots for 20 seconds because you told it to.

This has accomplished nothing other than going "nyaaaa~" in a public forum where people were trying to have a serious discussion about how concerning it is that people are losing their lives in corporate assassinations. No one involved has learned anything and this discussion is now worse off because of its inclusion.

I hope the 2.9 watt-hours and 8 ounces of water you just wasted were worth it.