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Unsettling, yes, but not strange at all.

Given that OpenAI is working with and doing business with the US military, it makes perfect sense that they would try to normalize militaristic usage of their technologies. Everybody already knows they're doing it, so now they just need to keep talking about it as something increasingly normal. Promoting usages that are only sort of military is a way of soft-pedaling this change.

If something is banal enough to be used as an ordinary example in a press release, then obviously anybody opposed to it must be an out-of-touch weirdo, right?

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Interesting take. Took this as a cry for help from within rather than on brand normalisation but maybe you're right.
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I took it to be a homage to early computing and programming which was a lot about calculating trajectories fast enough.

But considering current circumstances, not sure how right my initial interpretation was.

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It's basic physics, the sort of example you might find in a high school textbook.
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Sure. But do we think the topic was chosen at random?
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When primed, people will see things that aren't there.
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and it's someone's job to think of that connection before publishing the release and they failed
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but sometimes, people do see things behind the curtain.

The timing of talking about this topic does feel pretty strange I'd say as well as the GP comment noted?

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My point is: You're never going to know if this is a coincidence or not.

And even if it was intentional, it's of little consequence.

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No, it wasn't chosen at random -- it had to be a question that any reasonable person would immediately recognize as harmless, but where the old model would inject a bunch of safety caveats and the new model would not.
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> that any reasonable person

In short supply on that side of the Atlantic these days it seems.

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No, and it's also not a conspiracy.
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