I may just be cynical, but this looks a lot more like a way to secure US military and intelligence agency contracts for OpenAI’s products and services as opposed to competitors rather than actually about making OAI more security focused.
Now suddenly the recently retired head of the world’s largest data siphoning operation is appointed to the board for the largest data processing initiative in history?
Yeah, sure, it’s to help advise securing OAI against APTs. 🙄
I thought this too, until someone in finance told me to google “Theranos Board of Directors”, so I did, and it looked a lot like OpenAI’s new board.
This provides an alternate hypothesis: That signals nothing substantial. Perhaps it’s empty credentialism, or empty PR, or a cheap attempt to win military contacts.
I may just be cynical, but this looks a lot more like a way to secure US military and intelligence agency contracts for OpenAI’s products and services as opposed to competitors rather than actually about making OAI more security focused.
This is only a few months after the change regarding military usage: https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai-military-ban-chatgpt/
Now suddenly the recently retired head of the world’s largest data siphoning operation is appointed to the board for the largest data processing initiative in history?
Yeah, sure, it’s to help advise securing OAI against APTs. 🙄
I thought this too, until someone in finance told me to google “Theranos Board of Directors”, so I did, and it looked a lot like OpenAI’s new board.
This provides an alternate hypothesis: That signals nothing substantial. Perhaps it’s empty credentialism, or empty PR, or a cheap attempt to win military contacts.