This has devolved into a political discussion unfit for HN. The OP's submission history[1] is almost entirely political, and promoting a specific viewpoint.
While I believe it's ok to discuss politics on HN, my view is that accounts that exist solely for political propaganda should be discouraged.
My point was that submitters who only submit political articles (in line with their biases) are detrimental to the site. Such articles attract more politically charged engagement, and over time draw in people who care more about politics than tech.
The article btw is of questionable newsworthiness; and is a link to a propoganda blog. It's not really an accredited news organization.
Why? “This community” worked extremely hard to bring this technology to fruition, and got handsomely rewarded for doing so. The “success” already happened. At least Mr. Altman had the decency to wait until his product had been released before getting up on his moral high horse about the risks of what he’d built, whereas poor Google did the hard work of firing all their AI ethicists and making their priorities clear a while ago, only for them to get scooped on their own technology.
Also the post has been editorialised. Sure parties have IT cells doing all kind of things to build narratives, but I am not so sure if there are basis for the inference in this case.
Even if political, I personally expect better on HN.
I think this is relevant to HN because this is technology that many of us are working on and having an real life example of misuse should make us pause and think how to address the issue.
It might be great or not, the title is NOT correct and is blaming the government without having any proofs. Posts like these should not even be allowed here. This is actually propaganda.
While I believe it's ok to discuss politics on HN, my view is that accounts that exist solely for political propaganda should be discouraged.
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=throwaway384629