A thread on the recent report published by @OpenAI: 🧵
Academic researchers often lack sufficient levels of introspection to understand the potential abuse of the technology they help create through the word list suggestions they make to AI developers, Data Scientists, & Trust and Safety at big tech companies in The United States.
Direct attempt to influence policy through recommendation.
This is exactly what plays out at big tech companies.
Academic researchers suggest word lists to monitor for “misinfo.”
Trust and Safety & Data Scientists then follow the recs provided from the academic experts.
Aka: One option for the US is to monitor the term XX.
We find this term to be likely associated w/ misinfo.
Trust & Safety tells Data Scientists to add new misinfo word to param.
Data Science team adds word.
No one stops to question if the word was ever misinfo.
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DARPA isn’t the main issue and in fact it seems like DARPA was screwed over in the process. Something was botched in the transition.
This transition was botched.
DARPA Intel and the core backbone of the domain naming system appears to have been given away and then set up as a charity. But the “charity” is not actually a not for profit. This essentially means the not for profit commercialized DARPA Intel. That never should have happened.
I handed my most important Ruby files to Mike Benz believing he actually cared about the country.
First, he asked if he could share my files with his Intel friends at NSA. Next, he introduced me to John Solomon.
Benz promised to cover The Ruby Files. Instead - he buried my work and proceeded to come up with excuse after excuse as to why he couldn’t.
Next thing I know - he’s on Tucker Carlson and being called the top AI Censorship expert in the world.
He blocked me when I called him out and never spoke to me again.
I was told that my Ruby Files reporting would be on Hannity.
I was also told I basically needed to work with them and do it their way. Something felt off about all of it. I didn’t proceed.
My work was never on Hannity.
My life continued to get worse and worse.
Why? Because they knew what I had and I refused to play ball.
I have stayed silent about this for over a year. I will continue to stay silent about the worst parts of this because I don’t want to deal with this litigious gang of mobsters. Trust me when I say that these are not good people. I am not crazy. They could make any decent person look crazy. This is what they are best at.
Thousands of pages from Google's internal Content API Warehouse detailing over 14,014 attributes related to Google's ranking systems. The screenshots I posted are from those files.
Why does this matter? What is the context?
Two of the attributes include signals related to Covid authority and election scoring.
So what?
This potentially means Google had an internal config for domain level authority scoring pertaining to elections and vaccines.
Who cares?
People interested in the topic of Internet censorship should ideally care.