Isn't "Open"AI already a for-profit company in everything except their name?
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2024
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They are, even in name. There's some weird business structuring loophole where the "uber" OpenAI group is a non-profit, that runs/oversees the for-profit subsidiary OpenAI. It's like OpenAI inc vs OpenAI co or some rediculously meaningless distinction.
The Mozilla trick
I think it would be the IKEA trick
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i have never seen a meme so elegantly expressed with emojis 👍
Good luck, lmao
The grift is great
So the profit cap has been removed and the non-profit has been kicked out of the control seat. Sounds like they're taking off all the safeties in the name of money.
Goes to show the money always wins, and if AGI comes true, humanity will pay forfeit.
Now they have to figure out how to stop losing so much money,
Here we go