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What made OpenAI panic?
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š¤Æ Shocking Revelation: OpenAI's deleted discussion
ā ļø EU calls for AI warning labels!
š¤Æ Shocking Revelation: OpenAI's Deleted Discussion
Last week Sam Altman and 20 other developers sat down to discuss the future of OpenAIās APIs and their product.
But shortly after the post was released, it was deleted.
Yes, you heard that right!
Apparently, OpenAI requested that it be taken down.
The post was taken down but unluckily for them, that's not enough once something has gone online.š„
Once something's out there, it's out there for good!
Now, the big question is ā what was said that was so bad that OpenAI tried to sweep it under the rug?
To answer that, we have to dive into what Sam said in the initial post.
OpenAI is currently limited by GPU availability, causing delays in their short-term plans and has affected the reliability and speed of the API.
ChatGPT plugins are not expected to be released on the API soon, since plugins do not have a product-market fit (PMF) yet.
OpenAI will avoid competing with its customers. The vision for ChatGPT is to be a super smart assistant for work but there will be a lot of other GPT use cases that OpenAI wonāt touch.
OpenAI is considering open-sourcing GPT-3 but has concerns about the capacity of individuals and companies to host and serve large language models (LLMs).
OpenAIās internal data suggests the scaling laws for model performance continue to hold and making models larger will continue to yield performance.
The best guess is that it has to do with this bit - "OpenAI will avoid competing with its customersā.
You can bet your bottom dollar that Microsoft had an issue with Sam saying they were not going to compete. š”
Sam stated that quite a few developers were nervous about building with the OpenAI APIs when OpenAI might end up releasing products that are competitive to them.
But then, he reassured them that OpenAI would not release more products beyond ChatGPT, rather, Open AI would allow them to make the APIs better by being customers of their own product.
If you don't understand why that statement is so powerful, let's paint a scenario to explain this:
Let's imagine a company opens "Psychologist AI" (which is essentially just GPT4 prompted in the background), and this company suddenly experiences massive growth and starts genereting mouth-watering revenue.
What's stopping OpenAI to just open a "psychologist" version of ChatGPT and make it way cheaper for users?
Oh, and if you're wondering that's not possible, think againā¦ Amazon did it back in the days.
But hey, that's just speculation.
Weāll have to hear from the horseās mouth (OpenAI) to know the actual reason, thatās assuming they ever give us any. š
ā ļø EU Calls for AI Warning Labels!
The EU is currently in a race to establish regulations for generative AI as it negotiates the AI Act which is scheduled for a key vote in the European Parliament's plenary session next week.
But guess what?
Even if a final version of the AI Act is agreed upon by the end of the year, companies will probably not need to comply until 2026. šļø
Now, you might think, "Hey, what's gonna regulate AI in the meantime?"
Thereās the āEU Voluntary Codeā which has more than 40 companies as signatories, including TikTok Inc., Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc., etc.
In case you donāt know: The EU Voluntary Code sets compliance for the EUās content moderation rules, the Digital Services Act.
The code aims to prevent profiteering from disinformation and fake news, as well as increasing and curbing the spread of bots and fake accounts.
Interestingly, Twitter initially signed up to the code but later dropped out.
But hereās the catch with the EU Voluntary Code - it doesnāt include the risks of AI-generated content.
So now, the European Union wants tech companies to warn users about artificial intelligence-generated content that could lead to disinformation, as part of a voluntary code.
Vera Jourova, a European Commission vice president has stated that while the new AI technologies can be a force for good, there are ādark sidesā to it.
She emphasized that the new AI technologies raise fresh challenges for the fight against disinformation.
Thus, companies that integrate generative AI into their services and are signatories to the EU voluntary code should now also ābuild in necessary safeguards that these services cannot be used by malicious actors to generate disinformation.ā
In other words, the EU is putting trust in the tech companies' hands to do the needful.
So, let's sit back, grab some popcorn, and see how the tech companies handle this responsibility.šæ

So, there you have it ā the EU's grand plan to tackle the risks arising from AI-generated content.
Let's hope itās enough while we eagerly await the AI Act. Fingers crossed! š¤š
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