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Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI

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Re: Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI

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Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed. Karpathy, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher, was developing a product he has described as an AI assistant and worked closely with the company’s research chief, Bob McGrew. While ChatGPT has been a hit with consumers, OpenAI wants to launch software that can automate complex computer-based tasks, like f…

Not sure how I feel about this. I think just telling the gist of the article is fine, it’s like me talking to a friend, but sharing the article word to word seems like stealing.

I don't see how this is any different than posting an archive link.

In this case, theinformation.com articles are still paywalled in archive links. So I just pasted the contents.

Re: Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always thought some of the people posting the archive links were shills for the people running that site (it’s monetized with ads) — brilliant strategy.

I'd be disappointed to learn that anyone who's been longer on HN than about five minutes wasn't using an adblocker. That said, this is a valuable service. If I were ever willing to consider turning off an adblocker anywhere, this would be where I'd start.

Ah, but that’s not the only way —- backlinks, people copying the link and sharing it on social media, and mentioning the site all grow traffic immensely, and some of that traffic won’t have ad blockers :)

IIRC one of the sites still has a “buy me a coffee” link, as if the owner needs it.

Re: Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI

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post #34

Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365935 .

It would be helpful if the title of that discussion indicated that "I" is "Andrej Karpathy". This discussion doesn't suffer from that defect.

The name is in the domain to the right of the title.
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