Edward Snowden wrote on social media to his nearly 6 million followers, “Do not ever trust @OpenAI … You have been warned,” following the appointment of retired U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone to the board of the artificial intelligence technology company.
Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor, was charged with espionage by the Justice Department in 2013 after leaking thousands of top-secret records, exposing the agency’s surveillance of private citizens’ information.
In a Friday morning post on X, formerly Twitter, Snowden reshared a post providing information on OpenAI’s newest board member. Nakasone is a former NSA director, and the longest-serving leader of the U.S. Cyber Command and chief of the Central Security Service. He retired from the NSA, a position he held since 2018, in February.
Snowden wrote in an X post, “They’ve gone full mask-off: do not ever trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc.) There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth.” He concluded the post, writing, “You have been warned.”
Was looking up if that word meant something else and the first result was a British show called Spooks. My mom used to watch it but I didn’t recognize it because it was called MI-5 in North America since spook is a racial slur. Atleast it is in the US.
I have never heard anyone say that as a racial slur and I grew up with a bunch of racists. Historically it was, at least in some parts of the u.s.
I love William Gibson’s ‘Spook Country’ from 2007. I don’t remember any controversy about the title then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spook_Country
spook as in undesirable government creep?
because that title alone can be interpenetrated so many different ways without context
PS i checked the wiki but now that i know the other meaning, i likely explains some of the weird takes i got in the past.
I always knew of spook as a racial slur, but never heard it used that way. Spook was always used as a government intelligence officer, like CIA , FBI , NSA , MI6.
I’ve only heard it once, in Back to the Future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Hb-PhNLT0
Citation to the most authoritative source on the net: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spook.
spooks
Government intelligence agents, see G-men.
Anyone involved in espionage.
Careful on this phone line, there could be spooks listening in.
I heard this place was crawling with spooks, some kind of weapon of mass destruction is being sold or something. by Alan May 9, 2004
Not sure if you’re willfully ignoring the first several search results from google but here is some help.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/spook
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/spook_n?tl=true
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/spook
Also, I just happened to rewatch Back to the Future yesterday so here’s another one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Hb-PhNLT0
i pulled the top definition from the slang dictionary. i was not aware of other uses of the term nor that’s how i used it.
is there something specific you want from me?
My initial question. Just wondering if you’re from the UK but I can guess you aren’t.
I see. Nahh. Not from UK learned that term in the US tho. Only heard it used n context of the security apparatus being creeps.
Yeah I had no idea there was another use for that word.
Spook is a term for intelligence agents. It is not a racial slur. Whoever you know that used it as a slur made it a slur by themselves.
An easy way to see it’s not a racial slur in America is it’s use in culture, such as the X-Files.
I gave multiple references in this thread.
No, it’s both. It can be an intelligence agent. It can also be equivalent to the n word