It’s really difficult to cool things in space, and it’s really difficult to power stationary things in space. It’s also really expensive to put things in space so size/weight is a problem.

So if it’s not cheaper/better for cooling, and it’s not cheaper/better for power, and it’s not cheaper/better for rack space… why is there a focus on shipping compute to space?

The point I keep coming back to is that it’s really hard for the public to protest/damage/destroy data centres in space.

OpenAI absolutely did something. This wasn’t a member of the public using ChatGPT, this was OpenAI employees training an OpenAI model(s).

If you or I did this without permission in the name of research (with or without using an LLM), we’d be facing jail time.

OpenAI accessed non-public aggregate health statistics and internal files from an old Australian government website that carried Medicare statistics.

The prime minister said OpenAI was conducting research into public medical spending when it found a way to break through privacy protections.

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was “conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity” during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

“During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation,” they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.