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yeah well, both the doomers and the "pr stunt" folks are right

- openai wanted to prove, as a pr stunt, that they have a dangerous weapon - openai proved (as a pr stunt), that they do indeed have a dangerous weapon

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Basically, they shot someone in public to promote their cool new gun.

Eh, closer to "they pointed a gun at someone and dropped it so it fired at them to promote their cool new self-aiming gun," from the perspective of the skeptics here.

Technically the weapon picked who it wanted to shoot.

So why don't companies in other industries rush to prove their products are dangerous weapons? Maybe because it would be a really dumb PR stunt?

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