All of the Altman/Graham clique talk a big game but are simps for big money and power at the end of the day. Like many of us.

What is their sincere interpretation of "Open" in "OpenAI"? Their models are not distributed publicly, correct? Do they describe the network characteristics and training data openly? Where's the "open" part?

Pure historical legacy. Today they are Open to all monetization avenues.

> Where's the "open" part?

HuggingFace

you can open your wallet and give them money

It was always just marketing.

Open to receiving a lot of money.

There is this rather cute "intent laundering" ecosystem surrounding this work. Starting with Common Crawl, which uses the "we're not collecting anything, we're just a list of URLs" excuse to reject removal requests. And then feeding into nonprofits that effectively develop the technology for buyers such as Microsoft while being able to escape scrutiny because they're just small, charitable academic research shops...

Open for Business.

By impressive I assume you mean predictable? When the government comes with a huge CIA check it’ll be impressive watching too.