Still, Mike Wilkes, enterprise CISO at Aikido Security, observed, “sincerity is not the same thing as permanence. In the old Norse/Scandinavian image of a giant sea monster waiting beneath the surface, you might call this ‘Pause the Kraken.’ The real question is what conditions have to be met before OpenAI decides to release it again.”
Added Justin St-Maurice, technical counselor at Info-Tech Research Group, OpenAI seems to want credit for doing the bare minimum of what a major AI firm should have always done.
“If a carmaker announced that it was going to take basic safety testing more seriously before production, it wouldn’t be to fanfare. Frankly, it would be embarrassing that something so fundamental needed clarifying to a skeptical public,” he said. “The question for me is why this needs to be an announcement now, and whether they hold the line once a competitor ships something that makes a pause expensive.”