Moose Bellows

Said it a year ago and I’ll say it again.

Pirate all your favorite shows, movies and games while you still have the chance.

When I was 14, my friends and I went to see Madagascar 3 - told our parents and then walked to and from the theater by ourselves. When I got home, my mom asked me all kinds of questions about the movie, and I told her about it, and I kept singing the stupid Afro Circus song

Wanting to explore that a bit more, I bought the 7 day trial and tried some more of my older writing. Suddenly I'm getting 87% to 99% human. Well, that seems odd. I don't think my writing style has changed all that much.

So, of course, I put the exact same chapter that got me 6% before through again and lo and behold! Suddenly it's 99% human!

Let me repeat.

The EXACT SAME text that was only 6% human-written when using the free version is somehow 99% human-written when using the paid version.

Well alright then. Let's have AI write a chapter based off one I fed through. 99% human.

🤦‍♀️ x 1000

On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.

After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.

That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.

There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.

Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.

Sources:

Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News

Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death. The Independent