By November it will be "Just give us $10 billion more and we will be able to improve ChatGPT8 by 1% and start making a profit, really we will. Please?"
OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
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Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#182Remember everyone: If OpenAI successfully and substantially migrates away from being a non-profit, it'll be the heist of the millennium. Don't fall for it. EDIT: They're already partway there with the PBC stuff, if I remember correctly.
> Don't fall for it. The vast majority of people here have no exposure to investing in OpenAI. It was cool to dunk on OpenAI for being a non-profit when they were in the lead, but now that Google has leapfrogged them and dozens of other companies are on their tail, this is a lame attack. We should want competition. Lots of competition. The biggest heist of all would be if Google wins outright, trounces the competitio…
Is Google actually in front? I know Google keeps publishing impressive benchmarks but developers who are the most engaged and demanding users of LLMs keep choosing to use Claude instead. My uninformed take is Google is optimizing to the benchmark more vs. building a better product, which matches my overall impression of management at Google.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, for all that people make fun of the "Open" in the name their API-first strategy really did make this stuff available to a ton of people. They were the first organization to allow almost anyone to start actively experimenting with what LLMs could do and it had a huge impact.
DeepMind wrote the paper, and while Google's API arrived later than OpenAI's it isn't as late as some people think. The PaLM API was released before the Gemini brand was launched. Microsoft funded OpenAI and popularized early LLMs a lot with Copilot, which used OpenAI but now supports several backends, and they're working on their own frontier models now.
Google’s AI is not open by definition because their API’s are such a massive pain to use.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#184I assume a lawyer took one look at the larger mission statement and told them to pare it way down. A smaller, more concise statement means less surface area for the IRS to potentially object to / lower overall liability.
I'd love to know why their lawyers appear to hate apostrophes so much. The most recent one is: > OpenAIs mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Many of the older ones skipped some but not all of the apostrophes too.
Doubt a lawyer actually modified a website.
That's what GPT is for.
Trivial syntax glitches matter when it is math and code.
In law what matters is the meaning of the overall composition, "the big picture", not trivial details a linguist would care about.
Stick to contextualizing the technology side of things. This "zomg no apostrophe" just comes off as cringe.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Don't fall for it. The vast majority of people here have no exposure to investing in OpenAI. It was cool to dunk on OpenAI for being a non-profit when they were in the lead, but now that Google has leapfrogged them and dozens of other companies are on their tail, this is a lame attack. We should want competition. Lots of competition. The biggest heist of all would be if Google wins outright, trounces the competitio…
"The biggest heist of all would be if Google wins outright, trounces the competition, and did so because they tiptoed around antitrust legislation and made everyone think they were the underdogs." Can you break that out a little? Did they avoid antitrust legs on AI or do you mean historically?
They already got bailed out on the Chrome antitrust trial because the judge thought AI was going to disrupt search anyway.
And of course it is, though Google may be a prime beneficiary.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
DeepMind wrote the paper, and while Google's API arrived later than OpenAI's it isn't as late as some people think. The PaLM API was released before the Gemini brand was launched. Microsoft funded OpenAI and popularized early LLMs a lot with Copilot, which used OpenAI but now supports several backends, and they're working on their own frontier models now.
>DeepMind wrote the paper Yeah and it was Open AI that scaled it and initiated the current revolution and actually let people play with it. > while Google's API arrived later than OpenAI's it isn't as late as some people think. Google would not launch an API for Palm till 2023, nearly 3 years after Open AI's GPT-3 launch. Yeah let's not pretend Open AI didn't spearhead the current transformer effort because they did.…
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Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#187Former NSA Director and retired U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone joined the Board of Directors at OpenAI in June 2024. OpenAI announced in October 2025 that it would begin allowing the generation of "erotica" and other mature, sexually explicit, or suggestive content for verified adult users on ChatGPT.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#188Former NSA Director and retired U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone joined the Board of Directors at OpenAI in June 2024. OpenAI announced in October 2025 that it would begin allowing the generation of "erotica" and other mature, sexually explicit, or suggestive content for verified adult users on ChatGPT.
I am pretty pissed these companies stole ~10 years of my work.
I can't imagine how pissed I'd be if they also stole naked photos of me and used them to generate porn which they claim has no relation to me.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#189Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
It matters more for non-profits, because your mission statement in your IRS filings is part of how the IRS evaluates if you should keep your non-profit status or not. I'm on the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation and the board has to pay close attention to our official mission statement when we're making decisions about things the foundation should do.
> your mission statement in your IRS filings is part of how the IRS evaluates if you should keep your non-profit status or not. So has the IRS spotted the fact that "unconstrained by the need for financial return" got deleted? Will they? It certainly seems like they should revoke OpenAI's nonprofit status based on that.
Why? Very few nonprofits contain that language in their mission statements. It's certainly not required to be there.