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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true

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OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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OpenAI writes that the now-banned accounts were "supporting covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and wider...
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    OpenAI has published a report

    Into the trash it goes.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      Free toilet paper 😃😃

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        Don’t use that toilet paper, it’s bad for you.

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      From trash to trash, dust to dust

      • SippyCup@lemmy.world
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        Garbage in, garbage out

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    “facts that happen to be true” aka facts

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    Those evil Chinese propagandists! How dare they… *flips through notes* tell the truth!?

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      Eh, propaganda isn’t about truth or fiction, it’s about manipulating media to push a narrative.

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        Like every CEO and corpo does every single day, they don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore.

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        Yep, like most commenters here have been manipulated by this media and blindly accept the claims of there being a Chinese campaign in the first place.
        You should definitely take that scummy US fascist defense contractor’s word for it.

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    misinformation campaign

    • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club
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      Aka “News”

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    “Facts that happen to be true” what kind of orwellian speak is this?

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      Welcome to the future, it’s post-truth here.

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    Sam Altman seems to be a massive cunt

    • mgrecca2026@lemmy.zip
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      He raped his younger sister

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        Sam Rapeman.

      • Kennystillalive@feddit.org
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        What, sauce?

        • Tom Arrr@lemmy.world
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          I was curious too. Ended up here. The link title is a little misleading to me

          https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-now-dismisses-lawsuit-by-sam-altmans-sister-accusing-openai-ceo-sexual-2026-03-20/

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          The previous comment (not mine) is not how I would have put it, but: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sam-altman-sexual-assault-sister-annie-abuse-lawsuit-b2950916.html

      • BOplaid@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Really?

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    Wait. So china pointed out why data centers are bad and were right about it and people agreed?

    That’s a really weird ass “covert campaign”.

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    “These dirty commies! Making everyone woke with their factually correct propaganda! They just want lil ol me to not have my american dream!”

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    Another beacon of truth from the company of Sam Altman, known for his honesty and forthrightness

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    I don’t think China cares about US that much ngl.

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      Honestly I wouldn’t doubt that they do, supposedly leaders both ours and theirs see us as being in a sort of cold war space race style AI race, and I guess that effectively means we are.

      But I for one didn’t need their campaign to hate what I can see for myself is an issue, murderbots, surveillance, and dumbing down people further have always been things that I think are “bad.”

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        Yet you can’t see for yourself that this article is in propaganda in itself and blindly believe OpenAI’s claims there is a Chinese campaign.

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      I mean, in the context of AI development itself, there’s the possible angle that China/Chinese AI companies would do this to attempt to slow down American based AI development in an effort to surpass them, but…yeah seems pretty goofy tbh.

      They’re clearly trying to claw at anything to redirect attention from data centers fucking everyone over.

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        China already won the game. Their models are on par with Americans and much cheaper.

        We can’t compete based even just on energy costs.
        I use deepseek API and honestly I just don’t care about token costs cuz it’s so cheap.

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        China said they didn’t want those chips the article is talking about used by their companies out of fear of espionage and Huawei made ones 3x faster.
        There’s no way the US could catch up with them, they have nothing to fear.
        This article is propaganda in itself.

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          Fair enough. I don’t disagree, I was just playing devils advocate. The entire premise is quite ridiculous.

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    PRC ain’t good but this is absurd. Fuck ClosedAI

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    Ugh, people with those pesky facts, very inconvenient! /s

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    Yeah this is why everyone hates sam altman and not because he’s just going around saying that AI companies are worth more than the entirety of planet earth combined.

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    OpenAI still acts like there are absolutely none Chinese LLM. Sounds more like a fever dream. I wonder if they also did the exact checks on American user accounts and I am quite certain you will also see hundreds of Americans prompting the same thing.

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    Fun Fact: the American Govt. has okay’ed giving China GPU’s now that they get a cut of the profits. 🙄

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      fun, and even non-fun facts are sourced.

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        You got a source on that?

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        https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/us-government-nvidia-amd-chips-china.html

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          So they’re not giving but selling.
          They were specifically designed and produced for China.
          Nothing special or some state secrets as your comment implies.
          And the Chinese said no because of spying concerns. LOL They use Huawei that is triple the speed of that H20 of the inferior USSA regime.

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            Ok got it. You’re a CCCP shill.

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              Ok got it. You’ve been factually proven to spout nonsense and propaganda.
              You’re a US fascist shithole shill.

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