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Their stated non-profit goal was to benefit all of humanity. Changing OpenAI to benefit their financial backers in a formal sense could be a loss of nearly unbo
by hawkice 5mo ago
Their stated non-profit goal was to benefit all of humanity. Changing OpenAI to benefit their financial backers in a formal sense could be a loss of nearly unbounded value.
- Curosinono 5mo agoAs i wrote in my prev argument, they assumed that as non profit, they wouldt' get the capital needed to even be a frontier lab. So nothing to loose if their model wouldn't have worked anyway. And at the current state, its better anyway that China is pushing the non-profit/humantariy aspect of open models.
- nkozyra 5mo agoWhich is probably why they created another, for-profit, entity. You can argue that it's unlikely the for-profit conservatorship of the non-profit is incompatible with that goal, but legally that becomes very much grey area.