The Politics of Open AI

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Twitter's criticism of open AI was a hit piece pure and simple. It had an agenda going into it, the words written in times piece don't match the words on the document that they shared. Bad critique doesn't hold company's feet to the fire. Bad critique undermines important critique later on. And so for people who are genuinely concerned about the risks of AGI, they should be frustrated. The time is wasting its scoops and its exclusives and its heightened Twitter drama on a non-story for the sake of clicks.

Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW argues that the story is not only not some smoking gun, but is the type of nothingburger that makes people drop out of otherwise important conversations because they're feeling like the media is trying to manipulate their feelings. Before that a new research study reveals some unexpectedly positive attitudes towards AI. Also on The Brief, AI adds $150B to the net worth of the world's richest. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/