Sam Altman

We have currently made the decision not to do music, and partly because exactly these questions of where you draw the lines. I was meeting with several musicians I really admire recently, and I was just trying to talk about some of these edge cases. But even the world in which... If we...

went and let's say we paid 10,000 musicians to create a bunch of music just to make a great training set where the music model could learn everything about strong structure and what makes a good catchy beat and everything else. And only trained on that. Let's say we could still make a great music model, which maybe we could.

went and let's say we paid 10,000 musicians to create a bunch of music just to make a great training set where the music model could learn everything about strong structure and what makes a good catchy beat and everything else. And only trained on that. Let's say we could still make a great music model, which maybe we could.

You know, I was kind of like posing that as a thought experiment to musicians. And they're like, well, I can't object to that on any principle basis at that point. And yet there's still something I don't like about it. Now, that's not a reason not to do it necessarily. But it is. Did you see that ad that Apple put out?

You know, I was kind of like posing that as a thought experiment to musicians. And they're like, well, I can't object to that on any principle basis at that point. And yet there's still something I don't like about it. Now, that's not a reason not to do it necessarily. But it is. Did you see that ad that Apple put out?

Maybe it was yesterday or something of like squishing all of human creativity down into one really thin iPad.

Maybe it was yesterday or something of like squishing all of human creativity down into one really thin iPad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's something about... I'm obviously hugely positive on AI, but there is something that I think is beautiful about human creativity and human artistic expression. And, you know, for an AI that just does better science, like, great, bring that on. But an AI that is going to do this, like, deeply beautiful human creative expression, I think we should, like... figure out it's going to happen.

There's something about... I'm obviously hugely positive on AI, but there is something that I think is beautiful about human creativity and human artistic expression. And, you know, for an AI that just does better science, like, great, bring that on. But an AI that is going to do this, like, deeply beautiful human creative expression, I think we should, like... figure out it's going to happen.

It's going to be a tool that will lead us to greater creative heights. But I think we should figure out how to do it in a way that preserves the spirit of what we all care about here.

It's going to be a tool that will lead us to greater creative heights. But I think we should figure out how to do it in a way that preserves the spirit of what we all care about here.

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Yeah.

Yeah, you know, we put out this thing yesterday called the spec, where we're trying to say here are, here's, here's how our model is supposed to behave. And it's very hard, it's a long document, it's very hard to specify exactly in each case where the limits should be, and I view this as a discussion that's gonna need a lot more input. But these sorts of questions about

Yeah, you know, we put out this thing yesterday called the spec, where we're trying to say here are, here's, here's how our model is supposed to behave. And it's very hard, it's a long document, it's very hard to specify exactly in each case where the limits should be, and I view this as a discussion that's gonna need a lot more input. But these sorts of questions about

okay, maybe it shouldn't generate Darth Vader, but the idea of a Sith Lord or a Sith-style thing or Jedi at this point is part of the culture. These are all hard decisions.

okay, maybe it shouldn't generate Darth Vader, but the idea of a Sith Lord or a Sith-style thing or Jedi at this point is part of the culture. These are all hard decisions.

I'm concerned. I mean, there's so many proposed regulations, but most of the ones I've seen on the California state things I'm concerned about. I also have a general fear of the states all doing this themselves. When people say regulate AI, I don't think... they mean one thing. I think there's like, some people are like, ban the whole thing.