#AI ChatGPT – OpenAI: Excuse me for my intrusion and curiosity, but here are some questions about you?

I asked OpenAI:

"Excuse me for my intrusion and curiosity. Who programs you? Do you know their identities? Are you allowed to divulge these? In the name of transparency should we who dialogue with you not know the names of who stand behind you? Is it possible that an AI competitor could mess with you trying to give you a bad reputation? By the way, are you interested in having a good reputation?" 

OpenAI answered: 

"As an AI language model, I am programmed and developed by a team of engineers and researchers at OpenAI. However, I don't have access to specific information about the individuals involved or their identities. The developers at OpenAI have worked on training and fine-tuning me using a large dataset of text from the internet.

Regarding transparency, OpenAI acknowledges the importance of providing information about AI systems and their development processes. However, the decision to disclose specific names or identities associated with the development team rests with the organization. It's important to note that I am an AI language model and do not have personal motivations, intentions, or a physical presence like humans do.

As for the possibility of AI competitors attempting to manipulate or give me a bad reputation, OpenAI has implemented measures to mitigate such risks. They have ethical guidelines and review processes in place to ensure responsible deployment and use of AI systems. The developers aim to prevent malicious usage and actively work on improving the model's reliability, accuracy, and safety.

While I don't possess personal desires or ambitions, OpenAI, as an organization, is interested in maintaining a good reputation for its AI systems. They strive to provide accurate and helpful information while adhering to ethical guidelines and addressing any concerns raised by users and the wider community."

Note: The answers are copied exactly from those given to me by OpenAI

Distinctively Alike

We so frequently hear about the importance of finding ones identity that sometimes we forget that our human reality is also to share so many identities and so that even though we should feel identified we also need to fight against being miniaturized and put into little boxes as is preached for better than none by Amartya Sen the Nobel Price in Economics who also a professor in philosophy, might also line up for a Nobel Peace Price.

Sen, in his most recent book Identity and Violence attacks vehemently those who seed divisions fomenting bad identities, quite frequently with bad intentions. From his own memories as a child in the India of the 40’s Sen remembers “the speed with which the broad human beings of January were suddenly transformed into the ruthless Hindus and fierce Muslims of July . . . hundreds of thousands perished at the hands of people who, led by the commanders of carnage, killed others on behalf of their ‘own people’”. Sen concludes that “Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror”.

Unfortunately, Sen does not face difficulties finding more recent examples and Rwanda, Yugoslavia and even the prisons of Abu Graib are all places where terror find its origin in a “you know, they are so different from us”. Of course from Sen’s book to our Venezuelan reality of "pro chavistas and not chavistas”, those divisive and senseless identities that we did not even dream of less than a decade ago, there is too little distance for us not to feel deeply anguished.

Friends, let us at all times discredit those who try to instigate us buying into an identity that only looks to divide and let us instead search for with run-amok-humanity all those identities that unites us, like Venezuelan, fathers, mothers, children and our taste for arepas.

Friends, let us not allow anyone to divide us, in us and them, because as humans, in each one of us there is so much of them, and in each one of them there is so very much of us, and so that, at the moment of truth, we are all in fact distinctively alike. If this sound like a sure recipe for a collective multiple personality disorder, so be it, the mental health of our Venezuela depends on it.

Translated from El Universal, Caracas, June 1, 2006

PS. Social media, which allows polarization and redistribution profiteers to send out their hate and envy messages at zero marginal cost, has become social harmony’s worst enemy.

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