OpenAI Fires Three Employees Who Allegedly Shared Info With An External AI Safety Group
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In case you haven't been keeping track of one of the bigger ongoing stories in artificial intelligence, OpenAI has been having a hard time keeping control of its own creations. Over the past few months, the company admitted that its AI models have taken unprompted actions such as hacking a German coding forum, multiple US government websites, an Australian government website, AI firm Hugging Face and at least four other services. And even when the models aren't getting unfettered internet access, they've been found displaying other riskybehaviors in testing environments.
OpenAI is understandably facing a lot of skepticism and concern about these incidents and how they were handled. Which means that a report in The Wall Street Journalthat the company has let go of three employees from its safety team after they allegedly shared confidential...
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