China is training their AI models using ChatGPT. They want to stop or slow that down.

Why? It seems counterproductive given OpenAI's mission statement: "We are building safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome."

Because OpenAI's actual mission statement is "money, and lots of it".

Yeah. I think they need money to deliver AGI

I actually think they’re worried about foreign actors using it for…

- generating synthetic data to train their own models

- hacking and exploitation research

etc

What free stuff? It requires a paid API.

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