OpenAI’s history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders.
The company’s board is considering a decision that would change the company into a public benefit corporation, according to a source familiar with the discussions who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about them.
While OpenAI already has a for-profit division, where most of its staff works, it is controlled by a nonprofit board of directors whose mission is to help humanity. That would change if the company converts the core of its structure to a public benefit corporation, which is a type of corporate entity that is supposed to help society as well as turn a profit.
The use of “Open” in their name might be against consumer laws in Europe.
They should change the name to a single letter. Like Y.
Capitalism is already a superintelligence, and its goals are misaligned with those of humanity.
The iconic from nearly over 10 years ago https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-soaking-in-it.html
Corporations are driven by people — they aren’t completely autonomous agents. Yet if you shot the CEO of Exxon or any of the others, what effect would it have? Another person of much the same ilk would swiftly move into place, much as stepping on a few ants hardly effects an anthill at all.
I’ve never understood why people feel compelled to share this take.
Edit, clarity: The quoted common rhetorical statement, not the overall essay’s conclusions about AI.
This was so predictable. It seems they only care about profits now, and also positioning themselves to be a monopoly, so they really haven’t been compatible with the non-profit model for a while. Especially since they just raised more than $6 billion.
It’s truly amazing to me that a “non-profit” that has disingenuously represented itself from day one, and is based almost entirely on the theft of intellectual property that would get normal individuals prosecuted out the ass, can continue to rake in absurd amounts of cash. I really dislike this company.
Fuck these cunts.
God I hope open source models eat their lunch.
Unless we can get people to donate $400 million per month to any organizations that develop and train open source models, this dream will always remain a fantasy.
OpenAI and Microsoft simply have way too much money to compete against, because they can afford to buy literally their own entire fucking nuclear reactor complex to power their AI machine learning server super-clusters.
Llama is open source, supported by facebook. MistralAI is not too much behind either
Shocking. Absolutely shocking, I say. It’s almost like we’ve seen this exact pattern a hundred times before.
Absolutely nobody saw that coming…
Next you’re going to tell me they were never open source (they were never open source).
I’m shocked, I tell you.
Well yeah. They’re selling snake oil, and they better get as much money as they can now. That cash is going to dry up in a couple of years, and then where will they be. They’ll have to do real work again.
Sam Altman is and always has been yet another tech bro.
Every time I’ve heard anything about this guy, it’s always made me think “oh, that guy is a total piece of shit.”
Yea his “funny story” about carrying around a briefcase to explode his data center is just an asshat wanting to play James Bond.
Hey. What is this from?
That’s Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle from the old Andy Griffith Show. He also played the same character on Gomer Pyle USMC
This solved a 20-year mistery for me. If you listen to Pink Floyd - Nobody Home, I think this plays at 3:00
Yep, that’s him, that’s exactly how he would say it!
Just guillotine the rich already
ClosedAI
I was looking for a job in the San Fran area by keyword for a product I am a near expert on. I happened to find a listing for a position that I was qualified for at OpenAI. The post was truly creepy and had a weird fascist smear all over it where they were writing in all caps, multiple times that there would be no work from home or even hybrid work. It was unnecessary and very strange. I ran away and never looked back. Nothing of this surprises me.
PSA: There is a super easy to use app called “GPT4ALL” which lets literally any idiot run an open source LLM on their local machine. (As long as you don’t go fucking crazy and try to run a huuuuge model, that is)
Smaller models run at pretty good speeds on my RX 5700 XT. Yes, you heard that right, you can use Vulkan to run them on an AMD GPU
Is there an easy program to run one on an Intel GPU?
It uses Vulkan so it should be fine
