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While I doubt OpenAI is responsible for wrongdoing. OpenAI's strategic importance to AI development warrants an FBI investigation as a standard procedure.

The whistleblower may have been approached by foreign governments seeking classified information, but declined to share it. There are many potential scenarios to consider, beyond the obvious.

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Very wealthy people have access to very exclusive and potentially unethical and/or illegal capabilities. Many do not think they are bound to the same rules as the rest of society. Some are probably not.

OpenAI the company may not be responsible, but there are elites in the OpenAI sphere who might be.

Yes, when I am was a system engineer in NTT DOCOMO, we have seen cases of such attempt by foreign nations. It was more common than what you think.

It might not have been a foreign nation (?).

Both, we had seen competitors infiltration, spying attempt from foreign agents. Back in 2008 Lead System Administrator of NTT Verios got contacted by Chinese agents and they tried to bribe him to inject html pages of some websites with browser zero day exploit. He played along and then exposed that on board meeting. That got alerted to authority and one board member who have deep roots with Chinese government booted out. Japanese people place honor above money in many cases and hard to corrupt. It won't be same in many other places.

Everyone doing anything interesting in AI research should assume that they are targets of this kind of thing.

> Everyone doing anything interesting in AI research

They were just using copyrighted material for training. I'm surprised that, OpenAI being a Microsoft child, BSA kept quiet.

I do not understand why SKIF's aren't being used in any kind of "lawsuit" around LLM training data.

We know that there are random undetected "landmines" buried in LLM training data. All the evidence I need is that stupid discord airforce officer doing 20 years in jail for leaking classified docs or the many stories of War-Thunder forums having classified info get leaked just so nerds can win an argument online.

I'm old man (or rather, langley's favorite useful idiot) yelling at cloud about this.

Yes, this is a plausible scenario. High-exposure tech industries tend to attract all sorts of government entities from across the world. I worked on a high exposure crypto project and witnessed everything from coercion to sabotage. You just notice people acting in weird ways and it's not clear what their agenda is.f

> High-exposure tech industries tend to attract all sorts of government entities from across the world.

Yeah this is correct. I’ve experienced the same thing working with crypto folks.

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