These Nonprofits Lobbied To Regulate Openai — Then The Subpoenas Came

On August 19th astatine 7:07PM, Tyler Johnston received a connection from his roommate. A man, nan matter said, was knocking connected their doorway pinch ineligible documents to serve.

Johnston is nan laminitis and sole worker of The Midas Project: a nonprofit that monitors nan practices of "leading AI companies to guarantee transparency, privacy, and ethical standards are maintained." The Midas Project is down The OpenAI Files, a 50-page study astir OpenAI's improvement from under-the-radar nonprofit to moneymaking family name. It organized an open missive to OpenAI asking for transparency astir its modulation to a for-profit company, garnering much than 10,000 sig …

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