Re:DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
by naillo on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:58PM
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I kinda feel like they chose the name "open"ai when they started back in 2015 because musk etc wanted exactly the kind of thing stability ai is now creating. I.e. something other than a corporation like google having primary access to these models, and it being more democratized. But as time as gone by they've strayed away from that vision but changing the name would be a PR nightmare.
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This is actually an interesting illustration of how infectious a name can be.
If they hadn't called it OpenAI, the conversion from open to corporate would be much easier, where's now it's a significant pain point in OpenAI's reputation. It's kinda nice to see the original vision still somewhat having an effect despite no one left to propagate it.