OpenAI as we knew it is dead

&gt; The maker of ChatGPT promised to share its profits with the public. But Sam Altman just sold you out.<p>How can we still believe that companies are not there to sell us out, really?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8</a>

Hopefully the DOJ and the various AGs involved are going to be proactive here and stop this.<p>If non profits are allowed to become for profit entities it breaks the entire system. Then every startup should start as a non profit, allow everyone to write off all of their investments, operate with no taxes, and once they are big enough switch to a for profit entity.

Money always wins.<p>There’s a sort of irresistible momentum that happens when enough money pools together, and no person can resist it. You see it with apple’s customer-hostile app store policies that are a result of the money being too good, and now with OpenAI.<p>I wonder how this problem ever gets solved at the level of society. Enough money pooling together always wins out over public interest.

Other commenters are quick to point out that commercial interests always win, which is somewhat true, but misses an important point: OpenAI wasn’t originally a commercial company. This is basically someone stealing a nonprofit organization — structurally not dissimilar to someone robbing the funds a charity for children with cancer.<p>I don’t get why people shrug, or even celebrate this, instead of demanding jail time.

OpenAI died when they decided to become ClosedAI, after that point anybody who kept believing it was still working on its advertised grandiose goals was fooling themselves.

Sam Altman looks more and more like Lex Luthor in the last Superman franchise... He is not releasing any kind of alien creature on the world, of course... Wait...

AI is a tool which will be weaponized &#x2F; monetized to its maximum potential against perceived enemies and for the best profits

Was it ever truly alive? I guess they released the Whisper weights at one point -- not even the data.<p>Also it seems the &#x27;muh ai safety&#x27; doomerism was indeed just a calculated bit to throw off the competition.<p>At least the current situation better reflects the reality. They&#x27;re in it to make money, externalities be damned.

Money over everything.

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A typical one sided, opinionated view from Vox that has made modern media the wasteland it is. The article seems to be intent on rewriting history. Apparently due to “Microsoft” Sam Altman came back to OpenAI after his ouster. There was also the added fact that the CTO Greg resigned, quickly followed by the leads of GPT-4, quickly followed by an employee petition that most openAI employees signed. Sam has clearly inspired quite a bit of loyalty from his team (or at least from his top lieutenants that inspired loyalty from the entire team).<p>Apparently OpenAI needs to be regulated more to ensure AI benefits everybody. As opposed to now where AI only benefits those that can pay 20$ a month? OpenAI has repeatedly stated their goal is “intelligence too cheap to meter”, which seems fine to me with respect to the ephemeral goal of “AI benefitting society”. If they make some profits along the way (which they apparently are not right now), that’s fine too. Compare this to NVIDIA, which is blatantly overcharging 30,000$+ for a single data center GPU when it could be 5000$, and I wouldn’t say OpenAI is even among the most greedy companies in the space.

From my perspective: another global &amp; critical technology&#x2F;business with an LGBTQIA+ person in charge -- there are worse things that can happen.