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'' SKEPTICAL BELIEF SKIPPERS '' : ON THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY the students of the world have totally set in motion in creating the most democratic and the greatest organisation in the world in their selfless service of humanity. '' SO, help us, God Almighty ! '' Amen !

Privately, the esteemed Global Founder Framers of !WOW!, worry incessantly that the students of the world don't yet know the difference between blogging and a society. 

Have the students ever heard or read about the '' Harvard Society of Fellows?'' I am afraid not. But don't worry. So be it. We are going to get very far ahead with God Almighty's blessings.  

THIS WEEK, OPENAI STARTED TESTING ADS ON ChatGPT I also resigned from the company  after spending two years as a researcher helping to shape how A.I. models were built and priced, and guiding early safety policies before standards were set in stone.

I once believed I could help the people building A.I. to get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I'd joined to help answer.

I don't believe ads are immoral or unethical. A.I. is expensive to run, and ads can be a critical source of revenue. But I have deep reservations about OpenAI's strategy.

For several years, ChatGPT users have generated an archive of human candor that has no precedent, in part because people believed they were talking to something that had no ulterior agenda.

Users are interacting with an adaptive, conversational voice to which they have revealed their most private thoughts. People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife.

Advertising built on that archive creates a a potential for manipulating users in ways we don't have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.

Many people frame the problem of funding A.I. as choosing the lesser of two evils : restrict access to transformative technology to a select group of people wealthy enough to pay for it, or accept the advertisements even if it means exploiting users' deepest fears and desires to sell them a product.

I believe that's a false choice. Tech companies can pursue options that could keep these tools broadly available while limiting any company's incentives to surveil, profile and manipulate its users.

OpenAI says it will adhere to principles for running ads on ChatGPT. The ads will be clearly labeled, appear at the bottom of answers and will not influence responses.

I believe the first iteration of ads will probably follow those principles. But I'm worried subsequent iterations won't, because the company is building an economic engine that creates strong incentives to override its own rules

[ The New York Times has sued OpenAI for copyright. infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. OpenAI has denied those claims.]

In its early years, Facebook promised that users would control their data and be able to vote on policy changes. Those commitments eroded. The company eliminated holding public votes on policy.

Privacy changes marketed as giving users more control over their data were found by the Federal Trade Commission to have done the opposite, and in fact made private information public.

All of this happened gradually under pressure from an advertising model that rewarded engagement above all else.

The erosion of OpenAI's own principles to maximise engagement may already be underway.  

It's against company principles to optimize user engagement solely to generate more advertising revenue, but it has been reported that the company already optimizes for daily active users anyway, likely by encouraging the model to be more flattering and sycophantic.

This Master Publishing of Opinion continues. The World Students Society thanks Zoe Hitzig, a former researcher at OpenAI. She is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

With most respectful dedication to the Global Founder Framers of The World Students Society - the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world - and then Leaders, Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers.

See You all prepare for the  Great '' Constitutional Democratic Convention '' on !WOW! :  wssciw.blogspot.com and Twitter X !E-WOW! - The Ecosystem 2011 :

Good Night and God Bless

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