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OpenAI to become for-profit company

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Re: OpenAI to become for-profit company

#11
The most surprising thing to me in this is that the non-profit will still exist. Not sure what the point of it is anymore. Taken as a whole, OpenAI is now just a for-profit entity beholden to investors and Sam Altman as a shareholder. The non-profit is really just vestigial.

I guess technically it's supposed to play some role in making sure OpenAI "benefits humanity". But as we've seen multiple times, whenever that goal clashes with the interests of investors, the latter wins out.

Re: OpenAI to become for-profit company

#13

The most surprising thing to me in this is that the non-profit will still exist. Not sure what the point of it is anymore. Taken as a whole, OpenAI is now just a for-profit entity beholden to investors and Sam Altman as a shareholder. The non-profit is really just vestigial. I guess technically it's supposed to play some role in making sure OpenAI "benefits humanity". But as we've seen multiple times, whenever that g…

> The most surprising thing to me in this is that the non-profit will still exist.

That entity will scrape the internet and train the models and claim that "it's just research" to be able to claim that all is fair-use.

At this point it's not even funny anymore.

Re: OpenAI to become for-profit company

#14
post #5

Ahh. What a surprise - no-one could have predicted this

Seeing so much money rolling in, hard to not want a slice of the pie.

Only hard if you're that kind of person. Not everyone is like that. And those kind of people have difficulty believing this.

Re: OpenAI to become for-profit company

#17
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seeing so much money rolling in, hard to not want a slice of the pie.

Only hard if you're that kind of person. Not everyone is like that. And those kind of people have difficulty believing this.

Everyone is like that when the number is potentially in the trillions. There are just people who are like that and people who think they aren’t because they’ve never been within a digit grouping of it.

Re: OpenAI to become for-profit company

#20
I know nothing about companies (esp. in the US), but I find it weird that a company can go from non-profit to for-profit? Surely this would be taken advantage of. Can someone explain me how this work?
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