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0 pointsthethimble3y ago0 comments

These “terrible people” seem to have catapulted the world into a generative AI world.

They genuinely believe they will build AGI and therefore becoming the world’s most valuable company is a natural consequence.

Whether this is possible/probable is a different story, but I think a capped profit structure makes logical sense for the company that is aiming to create AGI. Would you want this technology instead in the hands of a for profit company?

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WastingMyTime893y ago· 4 in thread

It is a for profit company in everything but name. That's my main complain. It has Musk, Thiel and Livingston amongst its initial investors, all known as the greatest philantropists of our time. /s

I don't understand why they put this thin veneer on top of what they are doing. Maybe Thiel was burnt with the bad press surrounding Palantir and this is preventive damage control.

awestroke3y ago

It's literally a nonprofit

adastra223y ago

No, it is profit-capped. And even then only on the same sense that the US government is debt-limited.

ivalm3y ago

It is not literally a non-profit. As far as legally recognized organizations it is a limited partnership with a now minority ownership held by a non-profit.

eternalban3y ago

That means absolutely nothing to billionaire control freaks.

If OpenAI's products become the next Googlie thing (and here I was worried about Cloudflare <smack head>) then these are the future influencers. This is society mainlined on TikTok levels of manipulation.

Surely you have adapted to ChatGPT's requirements for interacting, have you not? There is a name for this: social engineering.

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Der_Einzige3y ago· 1 in thread

Huggingface and maybe Stability catapulted us into that world. Not OpenAI

ben_w3y ago

Normal people[0] don't mention huggingface, they talk about Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT by name, or the ideas generically.

[0] Well, non-programmers at least: webcomic creators[1][2][3], news anchors[4], opinion piece columnist[5], and stand-up comedians[6]. Programmers also know about GitHub Copilot.

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mountweazel

[2] https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1226

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/10bj8jm/cl...

[4] https://youtu.be/GYeJC31JcM0

[5] https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigGrannell/status/161460352687...

[6] Russell Howard, but I can't find the clip on youtube

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