We all know that the internet is a product of US military agencies. Yet, the default idea is that the internet means (more or less) free flow of information and a good thing in general.
But is that so? Could it be that the internet was just another con from the get go? Just a bit longer one than the rest of them. After all, we've seen it before.
For example, smartphones. At the start it was all fun and games. Then it got a bit more serious, but still nice and cool. And now it has turned into opressive slave device, with constant suveillance, that is almost compulsory to have and quite hard to live without.
Is the internet any different? It started as this highway of information, rainbows and unicorns and all that. But now it gets more and more censored, more and more oppressive with each passing day. If current trend continues, at the end it will be nothing more than totally controlled tool of oppression. Could it be that that was its design from the very beginning?
I agree with your analysis about OpenAI. And Google had been running chatbot basis technology for years before this all because publicly popular. I kept seeing similarities between capabilities discussed in their LLM papers and what bots on Reddit and other places were doing.
By the way, here is an alarm. There is a Google paper: "Consensus and subjectivity of skin tone annotation for ML fairness". What is this? I saw a research paper of theirs that discussed how to AI tag texts for skin color of author. Let that sink in in the context of anti white censorship.
I also note that 95% of Google's AI research staff are not white and most are not originally US citizens. This reflects an HR policy somehow.