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Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

tiffanyh wrote: post #457
xgolwks wrote: post #386

What the other commenters are forgetting is that this is the same Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast. This acquisition (and the Windsurf acquisition) are all-stock deals, which have the added benefit of reducing the control the nonprofit entity has over the for profit OpenAI entity. How do you extract the for profit entity out of the hands of a nonprofit? - Step 1: you have c…

> Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast Relevant thread where Sam acknowledges the plan. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

What the fuck

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by torginus »

sumeno wrote: post #557

[flagged]

I for example, got permabanned from one of the major politics subreddits.

Basically what happened was I wrote a post, and some guy responded to me with a firehose of personal insults. I called him a troll in reply, and within 30 seconds of posting said reply, I was permabanned as a first offense, without any possibility of appeal.

Mods be powertrippin over there.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

mgiampapa wrote: post #570
echelon wrote: post #565

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Growing up in a strong Southern Christian / Baptist / Pentecostal household [1], WorldCoin feels like the most "Mark of the Beast" plot I've ever seen. 1990's televangelists like John Hagee and Pat Robertson would be screaming to high heaven about Sam Altman being the antichrist if they were still around. Transacting with your eyeball? Directly out of the Book of Revelations! [1] I took a strong interest in biochemis…

Signing posts with a hash tied to a thing that might prove you are human instead of a LLM astroturfing might actually be a good value proposition for blockchain.

My body does that for me…

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

#584

Post by to11mtm »

sumeno wrote: post #557

[flagged]

I'll give my example, although it's a bit out of place on my part...

/r/news locked/suppressed [0] as 'Politics'.

I sent a Message to modmail:

Me: Calling this 'politics' makes me ask who's on the an alphabet payroll... Just saying.

Reply from modmail: This message makes us think you haven't bothered to read the rules... Just saying.

Then I was muted from /r/new modmail for 28 days, while also being perma-banned from /r/news.

Months layer, I had left a normal comment on a different thread with a 'mobile' secondary account on /r/news, and found both my desktop and mobile accounts locked for 7 days because the /r/news comment was considered 'ban evasion'. Despite having otherwise commented on /r/news from my mobile account in the meantime with no repercussions.

It was within the subreddit rules and reddit TOC to do all of this, I acknowledge, at the same time it's almost like Reddit is hitting that vibe of StackOverflow from a few years ago where mods can just power trip and make the place less useful for everyone...

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1es7sbp/us_considers_...

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by rahul342 »

alexey-salmin wrote: post #354
gnopgnip wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the article 5 billion of the payment is equity in OpenAI. So they aren't spending cash

This still means 1.5B were paid in cash for a company from what I understood has neither clients nor even a product. Not exactly pocket money.

> OpenAI already owns a 23% stake in io as part of a deal from last year, meaning it needs about $5 billion for the acquisition, the Times reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-openai-is-buying...

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by to11mtm »

rafram wrote: post #481
catigula wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is interesting given that reddit has gone from a cultural powerhouse to something most people talk about shamefully, if at all.

Really? My perception (and their metrics seem to back this up) is that “normal people” are really on Reddit now. It’s the #7 most visited site in the world. It exploded during the pandemic - not just a site for internet nerds anymore.

My dangerous question.... how much of those 'visits' are AI bot crawlers?

Based on their other behavior, it wouldn't surprise me if Reddit both used crawler hits to pump up numbers while decrying AI bots and doing things that broke long-standing community tooling and apps....

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by bigyabai »

haunter wrote: post #501
catigula wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is interesting given that reddit has gone from a cultural powerhouse to something most people talk about shamefully, if at all.

>something most people talk about shamefully, if at all Only if you go there for rage bait content. Small subs are better than ever. And no Lemmy is not an alternative.

No, Reddit is still shameful. The central issue ruins everything, moderation is placed on a pedestal beyond reproach even when it's trying to sabotage it's own community! The only point Reddit staff will ever step in is when these subreddits try to protest and threaten their bottom-line. They would rather run a pyramid scheme that's profitable, than address the central governance crisis.

You can't "no true scotsreddit" your way out of this issue because it's an overarching issue with the platform itself. Even 4chan has more better protection against influence campaigns, it's pathetic how Reddit's own administration lets itself be defined by it's lowest-common-denominator.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by ssabev »

mgiampapa wrote: post #570
echelon wrote: post #565

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Growing up in a strong Southern Christian / Baptist / Pentecostal household [1], WorldCoin feels like the most "Mark of the Beast" plot I've ever seen. 1990's televangelists like John Hagee and Pat Robertson would be screaming to high heaven about Sam Altman being the antichrist if they were still around. Transacting with your eyeball? Directly out of the Book of Revelations! [1] I took a strong interest in biochemis…

Signing posts with a hash tied to a thing that might prove you are human instead of a LLM astroturfing might actually be a good value proposition for blockchain.

Came here to agree.

Initially I thought it's a bloody stupid idea, however at this stage I reckon we need it or a lot of boomers are going to be ones hotted into singing away all their wealth away.

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