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Re:OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 ... by PeterStuer on Saturday October 10, 2020 @10:12AM (#24739122)
What does this have to do with the discussion about OpenAI changing not just strategy but what feels to many as changing their core values that they always promoted as being the central reason for them existing?

"But what about ..." is irrelevant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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Re:OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 ... by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:19PM (#24739947)
> What does this have to do with the discussion about OpenAI changing not just strategy

Nothing to do with that.

Nor is this a case of whataboutism. I am not justifying one company's actions based on another unrelated company's poor business decisioins.

I am stating that given this deal with Microsoft, the "Open" in OpenAI's name is now meaningless and/or dishonest. I used the example of Progress/OpenEdge as another example of a company putting "open" right into their name but failing to live up to their name - implying that Progress' name-change (and also: OpenAI's initial name) was a cynical marketing ploy to make people believe they're the _good guys_ in all this, especially when the AI/ML field has many detractors from the altruistic camps, especially after Deep-Fakes, Palantir, Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook have all left a bad taste in everyone's' mouth.

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Re:OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 ... by PeterStuer on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:01AM (#24744043)
Fair enough and thanks for the elaboration. I had initially read your comment as excusing OpenAI as others abuse 'open' marketing as well.

I think we are mostly on the same page here.

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