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Suchman and Myers West both pointed to OpenAI’s close partnership with Microsoft, a major defense contractor, which has invested $13 billion in the LLM maker to date and resells the company’s software tools.
That explains it. Microsoft wants to cash in on their massive investment in OpenAI by embedding ChatGPT into every bit of software they can. Defense being an important sector for them, I'm surprised the military ban was ever in OpenAI's usage policy.
Stupid question, why would they need to? Couldn't they license the models under a ToS that is totally different from the public one? Isn't the public ToS just for Joe Schmoes off the street?
That explains it. Microsoft wants to cash in on their massive investment in OpenAI by embedding ChatGPT into every bit of software they can.
Given how slow and laggy ChatGPT4 is, they're running ahead of the train. Ultimately, this will lead existing customers to competitors.
Yep, OpenAI is totally benevolent and only has our best interests at heart.
So the next time we attack the wrong country, we can blame AI.
Then the "wrong country's" AI will counter. What could go wrong?