OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

OpenAI says it is making changes to the "opportunistic and sloppy" deal it struck with the US government over the use of its technology in classified military operations.

On Monday OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said, external the company planned to add language to its agreement, including explicitly prohibiting the use of its systems to spy on Americans.
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OpenAI has faced backlash from users following its announcement it was working with the Pentagon.

Day-over-day uninstalls of the company's Chat GPT mobile app reportedly surged, external to 295% on Saturday, compared to a typical 9%.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rz1nd0egro

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I think users will be justifiably sceptical about what's really going to happen. No one wants to have to parse their user agreement to see how easy it'll be for the Trump regime to spy on them.

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. OK, so Altman

doesn't like spying, but is fine with the software deciding to kill people without human supervision.

Got it.

[reACTIONary]

2. OpenAI claims to have stricter conditions than....

.... Anthropic, but that is hard to verify. From Lawfare:

Perhaps the most damning development came the day after Anthropic's designation, when OpenAI announced its own classified deployment contract with the Pentagon—and publicly claimed three red lines that mirror Anthropic's: no mass domestic surveillance, no autonomous weapons, and no high-stakes automated decisions. OpenAI says its contract has "more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's." There is some debate about whether OpenAI's contractual protections are as strong as advertised—the published contract language may amount to little more than "all lawful use," with restrictions tied to existing law and Defense Department policies that the government can change at any time.

The government would not use the "app" to conduct pervasive survalence. They would buy commercially available data and use a classified ai server on a classified system. This has nothing to do with the app.