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It's written by Taylor Lorenz. I wouldn't expect it to be particularly well-researched; just to have a maximally anti-tech slant.

alexcannan 2y ago
Nothing in this article is anti-tech. Anti-monopoly, yes.
- reissbaker 2y ago
  OpenAI is not a monopoly and has numerous extremely large and well funded competitors such as Google (gemini), Meta (llama), and Alibaba (qwen), to say nothing of smaller startups like Anthropic. The blog post blindly asserts it's a monopoly because monopolies are bad. Taylor Lorenz also insists that everyone continue masking and social distancing for Covid and that refusing to do so in 2024 is equivalent to denying AIDS during the height of the AIDS epidemic. And she obsessively lies about her age to the extent that her actual birth year is listed as a range of plausible years on Wikipedia, since she's changed her statements repeatedly by wild margins. I think her compulsive, somewhat paranoid difficulty engaging with reality is important context when reading her (many) vague, unresearched, but extremely negative blog posts about tech.
  - shadowerm 2y ago
    She is obviously a true believer or very clever self promoter that knows her target market. The real question is why is such stupid shit like this being posted here? Anthropic is actually a great example of the free market working well. To compare OpenAI to Standard Oil just shows the person has no idea of the business practices of Standard Oil.
derektank 2y ago
Yeah, her beat as a journalist has historically been social media[1]. I'm not sure what value she brings to a discussion of market dynamics and lobbying; she doesn't seem to have any sources close to either Congress or OpenAI so this comes across as more of an opinion piece than anything else. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/taylor-lorenz/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/taylor-lorenz/
so_delphi 2y ago
so, what is your comment trying to add to the conversation apart from your imaginary expectations? have you read the article?

alexcannan 2y ago

Nothing in this article is anti-tech. Anti-monopoly, yes.

reissbaker 2y ago
OpenAI is not a monopoly and has numerous extremely large and well funded competitors such as Google (gemini), Meta (llama), and Alibaba (qwen), to say nothing of smaller startups like Anthropic. The blog post blindly asserts it's a monopoly because monopolies are bad. Taylor Lorenz also insists that everyone continue masking and social distancing for Covid and that refusing to do so in 2024 is equivalent to denying AIDS during the height of the AIDS epidemic. And she obsessively lies about her age to the extent that her actual birth year is listed as a range of plausible years on Wikipedia, since she's changed her statements repeatedly by wild margins. I think her compulsive, somewhat paranoid difficulty engaging with reality is important context when reading her (many) vague, unresearched, but extremely negative blog posts about tech.
- shadowerm 2y ago
  She is obviously a true believer or very clever self promoter that knows her target market. The real question is why is such stupid shit like this being posted here? Anthropic is actually a great example of the free market working well. To compare OpenAI to Standard Oil just shows the person has no idea of the business practices of Standard Oil.

derektank 2y ago

Yeah, her beat as a journalist has historically been social media[1]. I'm not sure what value she brings to a discussion of market dynamics and lobbying; she doesn't seem to have any sources close to either Congress or OpenAI so this comes across as more of an opinion piece than anything else. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/taylor-lorenz/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/taylor-lorenz/

so_delphi 2y ago

so, what is your comment trying to add to the conversation apart from your imaginary expectations? have you read the article?