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I'm sorry but from an outside perspective of a foreigner living in the US... Integrity has never been something that comes to mind when I think of this country. Business, money and profits first. Whatever goes.
And it's fine, that's how y'all are as a country. So far it worked.
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I thought OpenFraud would have been more fitting. They are a fraud, and openly so about it. Possibly the only thing they are open about.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't know what the law allows regulators to do, but I wouldn't mind if the government forced ClosedAI to change its name under some sort of truth in advertising law.
More importantly, we tech folks have specialized knowledge and it's our responsibility to not propagate harmful, deceptive propaganda like the OpenAI name. Especially for something as widely known and culturally relevant as ClosedAI. I've personally been calling it ClosedAI for a while now. When people ask I give them a quick 5 second explanation.
Another example, much less bad than ClosedAI, is "iPhone." It's not your phone, you don't control it. Apple can run and inject whatever code they want onto your ("i") Phone, and you can't make the phone run software which isn't approved by Apple. I personally refer to it as an ApplePhone (and ApplePad, Apple Mobile OS instead of iOS, etc.). I'll admit this is a pretty weak example; the name clearly has non-nefarious origins. But in the modern day, at a subtle psychological level, it's still misleading in an Orwellian sort of way. And it brings up a good opportunity to give "normal" people a quick 15-second intro to software freedom.
closedai.us redirects to https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3naz/openai-is-now-everyth... This is a clever piece of marketing by Vice!
If this is parody, I think there is a good chance it's libel.
Edit: I now see every link on the page redirects to the vice article.