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>Dedicated capacity offering is limited by GPU availability. OpenAI also offers dedicated capacity, which provides customers with a private copy of the model. To access this service, customers must be willing to commit to a $100k spend upfront.

How many shell corporations are intelligence agencies seeding right now?

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Last night I was musing how many different countries' intelligence agencies have moles working at OpenAI currently. Gotta be at least 6, maybe as high as two dozen?

Agent Lee Chen Huwang, reporting for duty.

I bet the NSA has dossier on every employee there as well

"Cooperate or we'll kill your family".

(Just to be clear, this is a hypothetical intelligence agent saying this, not me.)

I mean, it's not exactly rocket science, who wouldn't instantly fold to that?

Someone without family?

You know the next step, right?

ChatGPT responds by threatening to torture a simulation of the agents’ consciousness in the cloud for eternity?

(I mean, since we’re just making up wild hypotheticals)

"Cooperate or we will find you a spouse, make you fall in love, and have a family"

US, France, Israel ... then who? Maybe another five eyes country like the UK? Possibly China? I'm pretty skeptical Russia would be able to get someone in there but maybe.

Hi. French here. I may be wrong, but I really feel like you are overestimating us.

DGSE essentially puts all of it's money/effort into industrial espionage and they're the best in the world at it.

You said Isr*el twice.

I had been putting theories in comments but they kept getting flagged or banned or downvoted to oblivion, but maybe its time has come. I'll keep it tame. If you are curious you can google connections of OpenAI board of directors, Will Hurd, In-Q-Tel trustees, Allen and Company, etc. There is more but whatever. The conspiracy theory is that 'the govt stepped in' during the six month pause after gpt-4 was trained and before it was released.

It probably keeps getting flagged because it’s ahistorical, source: OpenAI engineers, and #2 somewhat obviously so. You heard of RLHF?

> You heard of RLHF?

The conspiracy theory isn't that every employee of OpenAI spent 8 hours every day for six months in meetings with govt agencies.

not sure what you mean. anyways, the reason why they don’t release GPT4 when they’re “”“done””” training in June is they have to RLHF

Private instance means a dedicated endpoint fully managed by OpenAI. You do not get model access or anything a regular API user doesn't already get, except your API url will be something like customer123.openai.com/api instead of api.openai.com/api

They are not gonna give the weights for sure but it still will be inferencable, I’m not sure how but it’s be self destructive if they did

Exactly, with a private model you could easily extract the weights.

Why bother with shell corps when they already back companies in the clear: look at In-Q-Tel.

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