It's also entirely possible they are simply sincere about their fear it may be used to influence the upcoming US election.
Plenty of people (me included) are sincerely concerned about the way even mere still image generators can drown out the truth with a flood of good-enough-at-first-glance fiction.
OpenAI is in a very precarious position. Maybe they could survive that hit in four years, but it would be fatal today. No unforced errors.
as for not building it at all its a obvious next step in generative ai models that if they don't make it someone else will anyway.
So yeah, better to never release the model...even though Elon would in a second if he had it.
Everyone has a different opinion on what threshold of capability is important, and what to do about it.
"""We want to successfully navigate massive risks. In confronting these risks, we acknowledge that what seems right in theory often plays out more strangely than expected in practice. We believe we have to continuously learn and adapt by deploying less powerful versions of the technology in order to minimize “one shot to get it right” scenarios.""" - https://openai.com/index/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/
I don't know if they're actually correct, but it at least passes the sniff test for plausibility.
Can't find anything about that, you got a link?
here is the link. The balloon video had heavy editing involved.
Isn't this balloon video shared by openai? How is this not counted? For others I don't have evidences. But this balloon video case is enough to cast the doubts.