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Look at the whole AI revolution that Meta and others have bootstrapped by opening their models. Meanwhile OpenAI/Microsoft, Antropic, Google and the rest are just trying to look after number 1 while trying to regulatory capture an AI for me but not for thee outcome of full control.
Thieves yelling 'stop those thieves' scenario to me, they just were first and would not like losing that position. But its all about money and consequently power, business as usual.
The comments were moved here by dang from an flagged article with an editorialized /clickbait title. That flagged post has 1300 points at the time of writing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865527
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It should be incumbent on the moderator to at least consider that the motivation for the points and comments may have been because many thought the "hypocrisy" of OpenAI's position was a more important issue than OpenAI's actual claim of DeepSeek violating its ToS. Moving the comments to an article that buries the potential hypocrisy issue that may have driven the original points and comments is not ideal.
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This article is from FT, which has a content license deal with OpenAI. To move the comments to an article from a company that has a conflict of interest due to its commercial relations with the YC company in question is problematic here especially since dang often states they try to more hands-off on moderation when the article is about a YC company.
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There is a link by dang to this thread from the original thread, but there should also be a link by dang to the original thread from here as well. Why is this not the case?
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Ideally, dang should have asked for a more substantial submission that prioritized the hypocrisy point to better match the spirit of the original post instead of moving the comments to this article.
Just don't set the expectations bar too high to start with is all I am saying. Folks that get so high up money and power wise aren't nice people, period. Even if nice normal guy without any sociopathic traits would suddenly shoot so high, the environment and pressures would deform them pretty quickly.
Also, I would consider only some leaked private conversations with close people as representative truth, not some PR statements carefully crafted by team of experts.
Happy to be proven wrong, still waiting for an example #1 to give me some hope.
