OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events

Re:OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events by macspoofing on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:48PM (#38352505)

>Very few are talking about Adam D'Angelo's insane conflicts of interest ... he had every incentive to get the org to reign in their commercialization efforts and to instead focus on research and safety initiatives

Given the original mission statement of OpenAI, is that really a conflict of interest?

Having said that, it's clear that the 'Open' in 'OpenAI' is at best a misnomer. OpenAI, today, is a standard commercial entity, with a non-profit vestigial organ that will now be excised.

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Re:OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events by highduc on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:06PM (#38352795)

>with a non-profit vestigial organ that will now be excised.

If this happens I'm not trusting any other non-profit org ever again.

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Re:OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events by wand3r on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:21PM (#38353035)

It pays to be skeptical but this was a super unique situation with cofounders with different goals and a very unique (absurd?) structure. Wikipedia and Wikimedia worked. Lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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Re:OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events by zozbot234 on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:40PM (#38353358)

Wikipedia is mostly written by its users though. Wikimedia is just a glorified site host, if it went rouge the encyclopedia could simply be forked and hosted elsewhere. Microsoft has the right to build on the GPT trained models but others do not, they'd have to start from scratch.

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Re:OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events by vasco on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:46AM (#38360222)

You shouldn't trust corporate entities, you should trust the people that run them. The people in charge can always do what they want, at least for a while.

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