Re:OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 ...
by PeterStuer on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:01AM
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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.
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.