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What is this 12 Days of Christmas thing, with Sam Altman sitting there? Do they really think they're perceived as benefactors or relatable, lovable startup scam

What is this 12 Days of Christmas thing, with Sam Altman sitting there? Do they really think they're perceived as benefactors or relatable, lovable startup scamps? By anyone following the AI space they're the enemy. They've made a mockery of the entire purpose of their company, ousted the board that resisted their direction, are abusing the charity laws while making billion-dollar for-profit deals with Microsoft and defense contractors, and they abandoned every single promise towards openness. Even their name is a lie.

butterlettuce 2y ago
I don’t get the hate for OpenAI. They’ve made life easier for me and I’m not going to pretend they haven’t. They came out with a revolutionary chatbot that provides actual value. A few months later, every single company starts pushing their AI offerings (Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Grok, AI this and AI that). Sam and Co needs to compete. > abusing the charity laws while making billion-dollar for-profit deals with Microsoft and defense contractors. Who cares? Compute costs aren’t going to pay for themselves and money doesn’t grow on trees. If they become ClosedAI, so be it. I’m still buying their stuff.
- artistic_regard 2y ago
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- halyconWays 2y ago
  >Who cares? Who cares that a 501(c)(3) formed a shadow corp that's making multi-billion dollar deals with Microsoft and defense contractors, put a former NSA chief on its board, has stopped releasing all weights, and is scraping the entire Internet (and probably all your PII) to train its models in direct contravention of their mission statement to only do things that benefit humanity? Well, intelligent people care about that. The question you should be asking yourself is why don't you care?
sumedh 2y ago
> and they abandoned every single promise towards openness. Even their name is a lie. You can access intelligence for free, isnt that open?

butterlettuce 2y ago

I don’t get the hate for OpenAI. They’ve made life easier for me and I’m not going to pretend they haven’t. They came out with a revolutionary chatbot that provides actual value. A few months later, every single company starts pushing their AI offerings (Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Grok, AI this and AI that). Sam and Co needs to compete. > abusing the charity laws while making billion-dollar for-profit deals with Microsoft and defense contractors. Who cares? Compute costs aren’t going to pay for themselves and money doesn’t grow on trees. If they become ClosedAI, so be it. I’m still buying their stuff.

artistic_regard 2y ago
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halyconWays 2y ago
>Who cares? Who cares that a 501(c)(3) formed a shadow corp that's making multi-billion dollar deals with Microsoft and defense contractors, put a former NSA chief on its board, has stopped releasing all weights, and is scraping the entire Internet (and probably all your PII) to train its models in direct contravention of their mission statement to only do things that benefit humanity? Well, intelligent people care about that. The question you should be asking yourself is why don't you care?

sumedh 2y ago

> and they abandoned every single promise towards openness. Even their name is a lie. You can access intelligence for free, isnt that open?