* OpenAI has not elaborated about the reason for its sudden decision. ChatGPT is already blocked in China by the government’s firewall, but until this week developers could use virtual private networks to access OpenAI’s tools in order to fine-tune their own generative AI applications and benchmark their own research. Now the block is coming from the US side.*
If chatgtp is blocked anyway, there little advantage to allow researchers access but bekng able to monetize.
OpenAIs models are so powerful and so close to AGI that the global balance of power would flip if autocratic regimes like China were to gain API access to it.
That’s what I am getting from the geopolitical safety researching marketing department.
Anyway as far as I can tell OpenAI has been turning access on and off for a while. And oddly enough now have decided to turn it off completely just as plenty of credible alternatives are emerging.
* OpenAI has not elaborated about the reason for its sudden decision. ChatGPT is already blocked in China by the government’s firewall, but until this week developers could use virtual private networks to access OpenAI’s tools in order to fine-tune their own generative AI applications and benchmark their own research. Now the block is coming from the US side.*
If chatgtp is blocked anyway, there little advantage to allow researchers access but bekng able to monetize.