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24 Aug 2025
the full power of the computer is generally inaccessible, to humans and ai both
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Rob Cobb retweeted
May 14
So I actually got carried away and made some swag for Ben š Let me show you guys later!
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Rob Cobb retweeted
The too-online altiloquolent schizoid-polemicists get to have all the sesquipedalian fun tbh.
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Rob Cobb retweeted
Mar 24
I don't have a main computer. all computers in the world belong to me
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Mar 19
Iām a bitch
Iām a lover
Iām a friend
Iām a mother
Iām a Priest (non-celibate)
Iām a data analyst
Mar 18
it's 2037. the only jobs left are
- Lover
- Friend
- Mother
- Home Cook
- Fiber Arts Practitioner
- Priest (non-celibate)
- Data Analyst
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Rob Cobb retweeted
Mar 7
āeveryone elseās LLMs are dangerous mass surveillance machines. claude is just a helpful assistantā
Mar 7
Anthropicās principled stand against the Department of Defense continues to pose enormous risks for the companyābut some early indications suggest that it just might pay off, Ken Harbaugh argues. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0ā¦
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Rob Cobb retweeted
Mar 1
Huh? I note you do not claim "no, our contract does not allow that" for any of these (except kinda sorta 1).
But hey, I want to assume good faith, and everyone's very short on sleep, would you explicitly say whether those answers mean "No" for each? And can we drill down here to understand those claims?
1. NSA is within DoD, are you claiming there is an explicit carveout to exclude it from your contract and that no NSA individuals, including those dual-hatted to CYBERCOM, will have access? What about other DoD IC elements? What about FBI's access to 702 data for purely criminal investigations?
2-4. What if OLC claims that the President has the implicit Constituional right as CinC to authorize DoD to do this (e.g., on a doctrine that immigration or Antifa, or in a future admin, pro-life protestors or MAGA activists are threats to national security), and thus no statute can bind that power? After all, this is literally what OLC has done before on warrantless wiretapping.
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Rob Cobb retweeted
Feb 28
As the government report says, the scope and scale of commercially available information (CAI) which is publicly available information (PAI) is radically beyond what our current laws foresaw.
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Feb 28
itād be good if there was a firm commitment from openai that mass surveillance of american citizens using their products was fully prohibited by the agreement they reached
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Feb 28
afaiu, warrantless govt surveillance of public spaces, including digital speech, is legal
specifically, my fear is something like āgpt5 reading all your posts and flagging accounts for the admin based on their politicsā
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Feb 28
it is unclear if such use is allowed under the dow openai contract
if it is allowed, and wasnāt under the ant contract, I expect that is basically the extent of the substantive difference in the contracts, in terms of the intended use
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Feb 28
Sam Altman is famous for being an effective wordsmith, so here are a few questions journalists and employees might want to be asking tonight:
- āHuman responsibility for the use of autonomous weaponsā does not at all sound like a prohibition on autonomous weapons. Does this just mean a human just has to sign off on the decision to deploy autonomous killbot before itās used in the field? Or write a report about its inevitable mishaps?
- āProhibitions on domestic surveillanceā is an interesting use of plural. Is this a categorical prohibition or something narrower ā prohibiting a few extreme examples?
- Does āputting these principles into the agreementā mean the DoD has agreed to abide by these ambiguous usage restrictions, or that the agreement makes mention of OpenAIās principles while still only constraining DoD behavior to all lawful use?
- If OpenAI thinks all companies should be getting the same offer ā and government coercion shouldnāt be used ā did they consider making their acceptance of the contract conditional on revoking the supply chain risk designation from competitors?
Feb 28
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
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Feb 28
ā¦did sama just play everyone?
a little hard to see clearly with all the mudslinging and posturing, and the second-order consequences are hard to predict
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Rob Cobb retweeted
Feb 28
A core problem here is that mass surveillance is possible to do legally. E.g. The US Government buying many privately sourced surveillance datasets and stitching them together.
I could see OpenAIās wording being permissive of that while being plausibly āthe sameā.
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Rob Cobb retweeted
Feb 28
Anthropic didn't make a mistake, by the way. A DOD that would do this in response to a company declining to renegotiate its contract terms is one that will not keep any promises about 'lawful purposes'.
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Rob Cobb retweeted
Feb 27
when the cashier agent uses the askuserquestion tool to ask if iām paying with cash or card but i am unable to load the payment skill because im already maxxed out on the context window from the shopping task so i just stand there staring for 90 seconds till my brain finishes compacting
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Rob Cobb retweeted
Feb 26
you have 18 years to destroy your sense of childlike joy before you become part of the permanent wonderclass
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