OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company
OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company
CEO Sam Altman could axe the "unusual" structure.
Surprised pikachu face
As Ed said, Sam Altman has been a plague.
The fact that Silicon Valley interests effortlessly shrugged off the non-profit board's attempt to hit the kill switch last year, and now are preparing to take the company commercial despite the deliberate design otherwise, becomes much more interesting when you consider the theory that corporations are a form of artificial superintelligence.
If the AI idealists can't stand up to basic forces of capitalism, how do they expect to control an actually dangerous AGI?
You give them far too much credit to assume this specific company will ever achieve anything even close to AGI.
If the AI idealists can't stand up to basic forces of capitalism, how do they expect to control an actually dangerous AGI?
My guess is they don't expect to. I guess that that is one of the reasons they seem to not care about out of control climate change; burn it all down before it all literally burns down.
reminder, there are localy ran LLMs. Right now is a vital time for open source to fight against closed source in the AI arms race.
Okay but what problem does that solve? Is the solution setting up our own spambots to fill forums with arguments counter to their bullshit spambots? I don't see how an LLM improves literally anything ever in any circumstance.
Another good resource to help people find models https://llm.extractum.io
Or just straight up install https://ollama.com
I hope OpenAI is going to serve as a radicalizing example to all the engineers, who fell for the "ethical guy/company" rhetoric, that the minority-controlled corporate structures they're used to cannot withstand the push for profit. I hope this will make more of them choose majority-controlled structures for their startups and demand unions in existing corpos.
I mean, I was already radicalized in that respect, but it’s definitely reaffirming that radicalization.
But also: I fuckin told you so. This progression was so blindingly obvious from the get-go.
OpenAI on that enshittification speedrun any% no-glitch!
Honestly though, they're skipping right past the "be good to users to get them to lock in" step. They can't even use the platform capitalism playbook because it costs too much to run AI platforms. Shit is egregiously expensive and doesn't deliver sufficient return to justify the cost. At this point I'm ~80% certain that AI is going to be a dead tech fad by the end of this decade because the economics just don't work now that the free money era has ended.
Almost like Sam Altman is just another run of the mill tech bro scam guy.
I'm happy to pay for LLM but not at the prices OpenAI is charging for their models.
How exactly does one “outgrow” “AGI for the benefit of all humanity?
OpenAI Charter https://openai.com/charter
Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit.
"ClosedAI"
My favorite part of this image is the image corruption on the bottom lol. Hopefully that wasn't a local my side issue or I'm gonna look insane
Somewhere along the way my copy got janked. I liked it so I keep using it.
Ah, the John Cleesachu.
Shocked Cleesachu
Them investors got to get paid!
Much open, very organic, very demure, so mindful.
As long as the shareholders are happy.
I'm partial to:
This is what Ilya saw...