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He took a rare example of a mission focused and open source tech organization and turned it into just another proprietary silicon valley cash-grab grift. That
by lrvick 3y ago
He took a rare example of a mission focused and open source tech organization and turned it into just another proprietary silicon valley cash-grab grift.
That alone should be reason enough to fire him and not look back.
- strangesmells06 3y ago[flagged]
- junofan 3y agoCoulda sworn the Board did that.
- lrvick 3y agoClearly in no small part from his loud and vocal influence. Everything went according to the profit-first playbook he lives by.
- hotnfresh 3y agoYep, if this goes through, looks like his take-over was already complete. They waited (way) too long.
- lrvick 3y agoYeah, too little too late. Amputation will not stop the cultural cancer now. No matter though. Open source alternatives are catching up in a fraction of the development time. OpenAI has been left behind in the race for Open AI.
- nostrademons 3y agoThe cherry on top would be if, in all the chaos of employee departures, the GPT-4 weights got leaked online. Probably would be the best thing that could happen in turns of actually making AI "open", but also would unleash utter mayhem in the marketplace.
- yeck 3y agoIf Microsoft ends up essentially at the helm of OpenAI after this all this then I'll know we are living in a tragic comedy.
- Apocryphon 3y agoYour details were wrong but your sentiment is turning horribly right
- Uptrenda 3y agoI think it would have been extremely hard to do anything meaningful with AI though without a business model. The hardware and research is expensive.
- lrvick 3y agoExplain then why the open source community is moving so much faster: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
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