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“ Or maybe it was a loose ethical environment in general” Altman doesn’t appear to be a beacon of corporate ethics. There has to be a reason why almost every
by tedggh 3mo ago
“ Or maybe it was a loose ethical environment in general”
Altman doesn’t appear to be a beacon of corporate ethics.
There has to be a reason why almost every single important partnership OpenAI had, abruptly ended, except for maybe Nvidia.
Just recently Satya Nadella publicly implied that OpenAI should not be trusted.
They are slowly becoming the STD of the AI industry, it’s like they think they are too big and awesome to need friends.
Maybe pissing Apple off will teach them a lesson?
- groby_b 3mo ago"Altman doesn’t appear to be a beacon of corporate ethics." Do those exist? I'm usually happy to see a mild candle flicker in the ethics window.
- _doctor_love 3mo agoThey exist but their defining characteristic seems to be that they are not well-known and generally much less wealthy than celebrity CEOs. Similar to the music world, the better you are, usually the more obscure you are as well. (e.g., Allan Holdsworth is a name known to most pros but the average Jack or Jill have no idea who he is or why he's considered important.)
- Zigurd 3mo agoWhen Intel was on top of the world I was fortunate enough to work at one of the partner companies on a project that was a pet project of Andy Grove. I would nominate him and his whole C suite as a beacon of ethics and fair dealing.
- PunchyHamster 3mo agoWhen Intel was on top of the world they tried every trick to destroy the competition so that definitely didn't stemmed from the top...
- LarsDu88 3mo agoAndry Grove was great, but Intel really was the epitome of "competition is for losers" In the early days all their products were explicitly designed to only work with each other to create a hardware walled garden.
- narism 3mo agoCompared to Apple/DEC/Sun/SGI, the Intel ecosystem was remarkably open.
- Danox 3mo agoOpen to Microsoft…
- fvwqcecvq 3mo agoI think it's fair to say absorbing functions onto the CPU die, reducing the part count of motherboards, was a natural evolution of the PC and made sense. So I don't really fault Intel for that. But they definitely had other tricks up their sleeve... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v._Intel_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....
- Y-bar 3mo agoI would say Patagonia would be considered such a flicker.
- nativeit 3mo agoMaybe? https://transformativeprivatelaw.com/the-transfer-of-ownership-in-the-patagonia-case-tax-avoidance-or-a-step-toward-a-non-extractive-economy/ https://transformativeprivatelaw.com/the-transfer-of-ownersh...
- wbl 3mo agoEvery Wall Street bank is run by guys who get that there are rules to this game and you don't squeeze the unsophisticated the same way. The same can't be said for Silicon Valleys contribution to the brokerage world.
- milkshakes 3mo agois this a joke?
- nullsanity 3mo ago[dead]
- wbl 3mo agoThe average private banking or wealth management client gets sold things far less destructive than the Robin Hood client who is far less able to withstand it.
- tedggh 3mo agoYes, all corporations have their obscure interests and don’t profit from being ethical. But we can also agree there’s a distinction between companies like Enron, Purdue Pharma, Meta, Lehman Brothers, Flock and Apple, Walmart, Verizon and Ford. They are all unethical to some degree, but the first group actually conspired to commit terrible crimes or are borderline criminal. We don’t know yet where OpenAI belongs to but it’s looking more and more like they want to join the first group.
- blincoln 3mo ago> Walmart I'm a little surprised to see the company that locked employees into their buildings during night shifts[1] in your "more ethical" list. [1] https://archive.is/Fx9S https://archive.is/Fx9S