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Comment by dkjaudyeqooe | Hacker News Reader

You've got to hand it to OpenAI for their bleeding edge marketing strat:

"WE'VE GOT AN AGI IN THIS CABINET RIGHT HERE AND WE DON'T WANT TO LET IT OUT BECAUSE IT'S SO POWERFUL, IT'S SO AI YOU HAVE NO IDEA, BEST YOU THROW MONEY AT US AND WE'LL KEEP EVERYONE SAFE BUT SORRY YOU"RE ALL REDUNDANT BECAUSE AGI, SORRY"

You'd think that so soon after so many Crypto scams people would be just a wee bit less credulous.

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Also in the news today, the 86B share sale is back on.

I mean... come on.

Remember when the safetyists feared and warned about GPT-2? Everything is apocalyptic until it isnt.

Maybe they asked ChatGPT to come up with an unconventional marketing plan and it had a touch too much blogspam "that will SHOCK and PETRIFY you" in its training set so ChatGPT suggested that they feign a powerstruggle over keeping a humanity ending super-intelligence under wraps.

The report is already starting to get rolled back. We now have a direct denial from OpenAI, and The Verge is reporting that their sources have also denied this happened.

The lack of skepticism that is demonstrated whenever OpenAI/AGI comes up, especially among technologists, is concerning.

Where do you see it being rolled back?

> You'd think ... people would be just a wee bit less credulous.

Like the Crypto scams - irrelevant.

As long as the publicity is bringing in users, investors WILL throw in more money.

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