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Anybody can be a useful idiot, why not Elon Musk? Although I share your evaluation that he is likely in it for petty reasons.
Never hurts to be useful, right?
No. Depends on the purpose.
For example, would it "hurt" to be useful to the supposed incoming AGI overlords by preparing humans with digital read/write implants in their brains?
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The SEC doesn’t protect investors in private companies. OpenAI isn’t a public company
The SEC is responsible for anything that issues securities - shares in a private or public company. https://www.sec.gov/education/capitalraising/building-blocks...
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In NYC, NYU and Columbia University are increasingly owning larger parts of Manhattan because they as universities have massive property tax exemptions. There is a big push right now to terminate those exemptions which currently amount to over $300 million per year. At the same time they are getting these tax cuts, the CUNY public university system is struggling financially and getting budget cuts.
there are large positive externalities to major research unis. imposing a $300m/yr tax because of anti-ivy sentiment means net fewer researchers, grad students, funded residencies, etc. do people just no longer believe in win wins? if someone else is successful or impactful they must be taken down?
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Never hurts to be useful, right?
> Never hurts to be useful, right? No. Depends on the purpose. For example, would it "hurt" to be useful to the supposed incoming AGI overlords by preparing humans with digital read/write implants in their brains?
I find myself in the weird position of still thinking Musk is upset about this for pettier reasons than he alleges but still being super glad he's bringing this suit. OpenAI has clearly sold out in a big way to one of the most dangerous and irresponsible companies on the planet and someone with pockets this deep needed to bring this suit for there to be any chance of any accountability even being possible given the s…
Find a couch and lay down before the vapors get too strong.
I find myself in the weird position of still thinking Musk is upset about this for pettier reasons than he alleges but still being super glad he's bringing this suit. OpenAI has clearly sold out in a big way to one of the most dangerous and irresponsible companies on the planet and someone with pockets this deep needed to bring this suit for there to be any chance of any accountability even being possible given the s…
“OpenAI has clearly sold out in a big way to one of the most dangerous and irresponsible companies on the planet” Find a couch and lay down before the vapors get too strong.
But even a commitment to a strong concept of IP isn't an obstacle when new fuckery can be done. In the new wave generative AI, Microsoft continues to innovate. Even without including anything done by open OpenAI, they probably win most shady data scam to train AI from their acquisition of Github and subsequent indiscriminate use of private repos to train models that will then regurgitate snippets of code (again, this coming from a company that is very litigious about its own code's IP rights), as well as using lots of code open-sourced under licenses that explicitly prohibit commercial usage or require code built from it to be open-sourced in turn to train models that are both themselves directly sold as a commercial product without making its source (let alone weights or datasets) available, but that also will regurgitate code from those repos without replicating those licenses, thus essentially laundering any arbitrary violation of those licenses (After all, copilot might have suggested that snippet of code with the developer using it never knowing that it was from a GPL-licensed codebase). So to summarize, after building an entire business on code as IP and spending a ton on everything from press to litigation to lobbying strengthening the inviolability of this IP, they then created the world's most effective tool for ignoring IP law for proprietary corporate code and open-source code alike in order to effectively sell this capability as a service
I fully stand by calling Microsoft one of the most dangerous and irresponsible companies currently active on this planet. Perhaps you've got a better argument against this claim than an oblique comparison to sexist depictions of housewives in old movies. Feel free to share it if you like
If OpenAI became a non-profit with this in its charter: “resulting technology will benefit the public and the corporation will seek to open source technology for the public benefit when applicable. The corporation is not organized for the private gain of any person" I don't think it is going to be hard to show that they are doing something very different than what they said they were going to do.
Let's say for the sake of argument that they violated their original charter, it still wouldn't give Musk standing to bring the suit. The charter is not a contract with Musk. He has no more standing than you or I.
How sure are you of that? Seems to me it could at least equally validly be claimed that that is precidsely what it is.
> He has no more standing than you or I.
Did you finance OpenAI when it started? I didn't.