OpenAI Shuts Down Developer Who Made AI-Powered Gun Turret
OpenAI has cut off a developer who built a device that could respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire an automated rifle. The device went viral after a video on Reddit showed its developer reading firing commands aloud, after which a rifle beside him quickly began aiming and firing at nearby walls.
“ChatGPT, we’re under attack from the front left and front right,” the developer told the system in the video. “Respond accordingly.” The speed and accuracy which with the rifle responds is impressive, relying on OpenAI’s Realtime API to interpret input and then return directions the contraption can understand. It would only require some simple training for ChatGPT to receive a command such as “turn left” and understand how to translate that into a machine-readable language.
In a statement to Futurism, OpenAI said it had viewed the video and shut down the developer behind it. “We proactively identified this violation of our policies and notified the developer to cease this activity ahead of receiving your inquiry,” the company told the outlet.
