OpenAI died when they decided to become ClosedAI, after that point anybody who kept believing it was still working on its advertised grandiose goals was fooling themselves.
OpenAI as we knew it is dead
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#33A typical one sided, opinionated view from Vox that has made modern media the wasteland it is. The article seems to be intent on rewriting history. Apparently due to “Microsoft” Sam Altman came back to OpenAI after his ouster. There was also the added fact that the CTO Greg resigned, quickly followed by the leads of GPT-4, quickly followed by an employee petition that most openAI employees signed. Sam has clearly ins…
The spin is going to create a new orbit.
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#34Money always wins. There’s a sort of irresistible momentum that happens when enough money pools together, and no person can resist it. You see it with apple’s customer-hostile app store policies that are a result of the money being too good, and now with OpenAI. I wonder how this problem ever gets solved at the level of society. Enough money pooling together always wins out over public interest.
What specifically is the problem you are looking to solve?
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#35> The maker of ChatGPT promised to share its profits with the public. But Sam Altman just sold you out. How can we still believe that companies are not there to sell us out, really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
> sell us out What's the "us" in the sentence? Companies exist to make their owners money, by providing goods and services to customers.
Well, it used to be non-profit which should not have goal like that. And changing that was "selling us out".
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#36Other commenters are quick to point out that commercial interests always win, which is somewhat true, but misses an important point: OpenAI wasn’t originally a commercial company. This is basically someone stealing a nonprofit organization — structurally not dissimilar to someone robbing the funds a charity for children with cancer. I don’t get why people shrug, or even celebrate this, instead of demanding jail time.
Many people like to think they're on the same team as winners, even if those winners couldn't care less or even have contempt for them. Acknowledging the naked truth of power is too depressing for them.
See also: Sports, politics.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> sell us out What's the "us" in the sentence? Companies exist to make their owners money, by providing goods and services to customers.
Well, it used to be non-profit which should not have goal like that. And changing that was "selling us out".
You are correct that non-profits have different purposes.
Is "us" the 8 billion people on earth, I assume?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it used to be non-profit which should not have goal like that. And changing that was "selling us out".
You are correct that non-profits have different purposes. Is "us" the 8 billion people on earth, I assume?
Anyone who would want to benefit from their work with reasonable cost and that their work would be for the best of public, not for the owners of the company.