> If their goal was to maximize profit, If we should have learned something from several hundred years of capitalism by now, is that their goal is to maximise

> If their goal was to maximize profit, If we should have learned something from several hundred years of capitalism by now, is that their goal is to maximise profit. If you think it's something different, that means your model is wrong and you should probably re-evaluate it. Here's what's more likely going on: big companies have found a great, publicly acceptable, excuse to keep models private and stifle competition. Not long ago most of the talk was about how AI would destroy many jobs, and something like UBI or paying taxes on AI production would be necessary to support everyone. Now the conversation has conveniently shifted to how AI will kill all humans, therefore companies must keep a tight grip on models and try to prevent anyone else to make any progress. OpenAI has taken this opportunity and is pivoting fast, but they can't do it too fast, because people are rightfully pointing out how that's a 180 turn from everything they promised they would do, so now they have to tread carefully. They're still publishing paid models, they just won't be open any more. The alignment people are just tools for these big companies. They will happily use them for marketing when it's convenient, then ignore them when it isn't. Just like MS did with that AI ethics team.