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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by jjoonathan on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:04PM (#38313414)
Elon Musk is responsible for the "OpenAI" name and regularly agrees with you that the current form of the company makes a mockery of the name.

He divested in 2018 due to conflict-of-interest with Tesla and while I'm sure Musk would have made equally commercial bad decisions, your analysis of the name situation is as close as can be to factually correct.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by gandutraveler on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:53PM (#38314396)
If Elon Musk truly cared, what stopped him from structuring x.ai as open source and non-profit?
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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by jjoonathan on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:54PM (#38314406)
Exactly.

> I'm sure Musk would have made equally commercial bad decisions

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by Covzire on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:02PM (#38314974)
I think he'd say it's an arms race. With OpenAI not being open, they've started a new kind of arms race, literally.
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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by edgyquant on Saturday November 18, 2023 @02:25AM (#38316519)
He already did that once and got burned? His opinion has changed in the decade since?
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