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Re: OpenAI as we knew it is dead

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Hopefully the DOJ and the various AGs involved are going to be proactive here and stop this.

If non profits are allowed to become for profit entities it breaks the entire system. Then every startup should start as a non profit, allow everyone to write off all of their investments, operate with no taxes, and once they are big enough switch to a for profit entity.

Re: OpenAI as we knew it is dead

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Hopefully the DOJ and the various AGs involved are going to be proactive here and stop this. If non profits are allowed to become for profit entities it breaks the entire system. Then every startup should start as a non profit, allow everyone to write off all of their investments, operate with no taxes, and once they are big enough switch to a for profit entity.

And claim the copyright abuse is fair use for research purposes.

Re: OpenAI as we knew it is dead

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Was it ever truly alive? I guess they released the Whisper weights at one point -- not even the data.

Also it seems the 'muh ai safety' doomerism was indeed just a calculated bit to throw off the competition.

At least the current situation better reflects the reality. They're in it to make money, externalities be damned.

Re: OpenAI as we knew it is dead

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> 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

you used to believe companies were benevolent?

Re: OpenAI as we knew it is dead

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Money 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.

Re: OpenAI as we knew it is dead

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post #6

> 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

you used to believe companies were benevolent?

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