> OpenAI is in some commercial and non-profit superposition This is the big issue I have with it that no one has yet had a satisfactory (to me anyway) answer t

> OpenAI is in some commercial and non-profit superposition This is the big issue I have with it that no one has yet had a satisfactory (to me anyway) answer to. The internet was scraped for all manner of writing, images, etc. to train these models for research. And then once the research was done (enough), they took the model and began selling it for profit. The question of is using publicly available content as training data fair use is an interesting question, but OpenAI has gone to market with a product on offer not merely without answering it, but seemingly quite deliberately avoiding answering it and AI hype people seem completely fine with it, despite that being a make-or-break question for the concept. And it's less that I think OpenAI owes royalties to every single person they collected training data from, and more than I'm extremely uncomfortable with and skeptical of the notion that, from my perspective, yet another major player in the tech space is abusing the public square to make a buck, which is unfortunately far from a new story. Maybe I'm just getting old, but the rallying cry of disruption, where these startup companies come in half-cocked insisting an old industry is in dire need of innovation but plot twist, the innovation is just app-powered slavery again, they get seventy billion dollars to build an app and a website, crush an existing industry underneath the weight of VC money, then either a) price the service so it's no goddamn cheaper than the thing it replaced but now the people actually doing the work are somehow making even less money or b) go out of business and leave a husk of an industry left that barely functions and nobody wants to start it back up again is just... hollow. Technology is great, but these massive corporations with the backing of unholy amounts of money just manifesting their destiny all over our society and economy and making us live with the consequences isn't.