"...but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft."<p>That's how it all went wrong and best to avoid their products as far as possible
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#Transition_to_for-profit" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#Transition_to_for-profi...</a><p>When vulture capital and/or surveillance capital gets involved enshittification begins <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys" rel="nofollow">https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys</a>
For those who love to <i>still</i> hate Twitter and won't click the link:<p>>> OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all. - Elon Musk<p>That was also my original impression of OpenAI when it first launched and many others in [0] Was supposed to be a non-profit, open-source and countering DeepMind's closed AI. Now it is the exact opposite of all of that and is almost essentially a Microsoft-owned AI division.<p>OpenAI might as well rename to ClosedAI or just get itself fully acquired by Microsoft given its investment and exclusivity deals.<p>As soon as it transitioned to a for-profit, it became another VC scam.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10720176" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10720176</a>