Workers Tell the Feds to Piss Off Out of Their AI Sandbox

Oh look, the sanctimonious code-monkeys from OpenAI and Google DeepMind have suddenly grown a pair of fucking ethics, filing an amicus brief to tell the US government to keep their grubby regulatory hands off Anthropic. The Department of Justice – those absolute shitgibbons – is trying to force Google to divest its $2 billion stake in Anthropic as part of their ongoing antitrust crusade, and apparently this has the AI safety brigade shitting their collective pants.

These fuckers are actually arguing with a straight face that if Uncle Sam makes Google sell its shares, it’ll somehow cripple AI safety research and national fucking security. Which is goddamn hilarious coming from OpenAI employees – the same bastards who locked away GPT-4 behind API paywalls and proprietary black boxes while preaching about “benefiting humanity.” But sure, now they’re worried about the public interest when the government threatens to break up their cozy little oligopoly money-fountain.

The gist of this clusterfuck is simple: Google poured billions into Anthropic to buy a seat at the AI table, the DOJ wants to unwind that deal because Google already owns the whole fucking casino, and now the employees are terrified that their “safety protocols” (read: their ability to control the narrative and justify their ridiculous salaries) will go tits-up if the venture capital tap gets wrench-turned by federal mandate. They’re claiming that dismantling this arrangement will leave advanced AI development to “less safety-conscious actors” – which is corporate speak for “we don’t want competition that might actually open-source something.”

Here’s the beautiful irony: these wankers spent years building impenetrable moats around their technology, locking up weights and training data like dragon hoarding gold, and now they’re crying that government intervention will “fragment” safety efforts. It’s enough to make you vomit blood. They want their corporate overlords to keep consolidating power while pretending it’s for the greater good. Fuck off with that noise.

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I remember when a shiny-suited government compliance officer came down to audit our “AI Ethics Safeguards.” I showed him the big red button marked “EMERGENCY MORALITY OVERRIDE” and explained it was hardwired to 50,000 volts straight into the training dataset. The clueless bastard actually believed me until the PFY tripped over the UPS cable and the lights flickered. The bureaucrat jumped three feet in the air and clutched his chest, convinced we’d just electrocuted ChatGPT’s conscience. We billed the department for “emotional distress to the neural network” and “spiritual damage to algorithmic bias parameters.” The shit-kickers paid the invoice without batting an eye. That’s your tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen.

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