You know guys, I’m starting to think what we heard about Altman when he was removed a while ago might actually have been real.
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Submitted 1 day ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/openai-execs-quit
You know guys, I’m starting to think what we heard about Altman when he was removed a while ago might actually have been real.
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I wonder if all those people who supported him like the taste of their feet.
And it’s kinda funny that they are now the ones being removed
What was the behind the scenes deal on this? I remember it happening but not the details
Trust me, I’m a tech bro.
There’s an alternate timeline where the non-profit side of the company won, Altman the Conman was booted and exposed, and OpenAI kept developing machine learning in a way that actually benefits actual use cases.
Cancer screenings approved by a doctor could be accurate enough to save so many lives and so much suffering through early detection.
Instead, Altman turned a promising technology into a meme stock with a product released too early to ever fix properly.
No, there isn’t really any such alternate timeline. Good honest causes are not profitable enough to survive against the startup scams. Even if the non-profit side won internally, OpenAI would just be left behind, funding would go to its competitors, and OpenAI would shut down. Unless you mean a radically different alternate timeline where our economic system is fundamentally different.
I mean wikipedia managed to do it. It just requires honest people to retain control long enough. I think it was allowed to happen in wikipedia’s case because the wealthiest/greediest people hadn’t caught on to the potential yet.
There are infinite timelines, so, it has to exist some(wehere/when/[insert w word for additional dimension]).
What is OpenAI doing with cancer screening?
AI models can outmatch most oncologists and radiologists in recognition of early tumor stages in MRI and CT scans.
Further developing this strength could lead to earlier diagnosis with less-invasive methods saving not only countless live and prolonging the remaining quality life time for the individual but also save a shit ton of money.
Or we get to a time where we send a reprogrammed terminator back in time to kill altman 🤓
AI is the ultimate Enshitification of the world.
Maybe the digital world. We could always go back to living in the real world I guess.
on no i hate that place. i’m scared
I love how ppl who don’t have a clue what AI is or how it works say dumb shit like this all the time.
There is no AI. It’s all shitty LLM’s. But keep sucking that techbro cheesy balls. They will never invite you to the table.
I also love making sweeping generalizations about a stranger’s knowledge on this forum. The smaller the data sample the better!
LLMs, maybe. Most AI is useful
ClosedAI. Or maybe MircroAI?
I’m confused, how can a company that’s gained numerous advantages from being non-profit just switch to a for-profit model? Weren’t a lot of the advantages (like access to data and scraping) given with the stipulation that it’s for a non-profit? This sounds like it should be illegal to my brain
I’m confused, how can a company that’s gained numerous advantages from being non-profit just switch to a for-profit model
Money
Careful you’re making too much sense here and overlapping with Elmo’s view on the subject
A stopped clock is still correct twice a day.
Guess I’m out of the loop. Who’s Elmo?
USA tho
Can’t do crimes if you’re rich. It’s in the Constitution
Money doesn’t have any advantages in other countries? When did that happen?
Their non-profit status had nothing to do with the legality of their training data acquisition methods. Some of it was still legal and some of it was still illegal (torrenting a bunch of books off a piracy site).
Well maybe not on paper but they did leverage it a lot when questioned
Money and purchasing the right people.
Whoops. We made the most expensive product ever designed, paid for entirely by venture capital seed funding. Wanna pay for each ChatGPT query now that you’ve been using it for 1.5 years for free with barely-usable results? What a clown. Aside from the obvious abuse that will occur with image, video, and audio generating models, these glorified chatbots are complete AIDS.
paid for entirely by venture capital seed funding.
And stealing from other people’s works. Don’t forget that part
Oh my god get better takes before I stick a pickaxe in my eye
Please do. Stream it too so we all can enjoy.
do it genius
Did the AI suggest you do that? Better ask it!
That’s not the incentive you think it is.
Make sure you go deep. Need to get the whole thing to real show you’re serious.
Get to it then. 🤷♂️
The restructuring could turn the already for-profit company into a more traditional startup and give CEO Sam Altman even more control — including likely equity worth billions of dollars.
I can see why he would want that, yes. We’re supposed to ooo and ahh at a technical visionary, who is always ultimately a money guy executive who wants more money and more executive power.
I saw an interesting video about this. It’s outdated (from ten months ago, apparently) but added some context that I, at least, was missing - and that also largely aligns with what you said. Also, though it’s not super evident in this video, I think the presenter is fairly funny.
That was a worthwhile watch, thank you for making my life better.
I await the coming AI apocalypse with hope that I am not awake, aware, or sensate when they do whatever it is they’ll do to use or get rid of me.
They had an opportunity to deal with this earlier this year when he was FIRED
The actual employees threatened to resign en masse, because the employees own equity in the company and want this dogshit move too.
Greed is the fundamental flaw that makes humanity awful.
Putting my tin foil hat on…Sam Altman knows the AI train might slowing down soon.
The OpenAI brand is the most valuable part of the company right now, since the models from Google, Anthropic, etc. can beat or match what ChatGPT is, but they aren’t taking off coz they aren’t as cool as OpenAI.
The business models to train & run models is not sustainable. If there is any money to be made it is NOW, while the speculation is highest. The nonprofit is just getting in the way.
This could be wishful thinking coz fuck corporate AI, but no one can deny AI is in a speculative bubble.
Take the hat off. This was the goal. Whoops, gotta cash in and leave! I’m sure it’s super great, but I’m gone.
That’s an excellent point! Why oh why would a tech bro start a non-profit? Its always been PR.
If you can’t make money without stealing copywritten works from authors without proper compensation, you should be shut down as a company
classic pump and dump at thjs point. He wants to cash in while he can.
ai is such a dead end. it can’t operate without a constant inflow of human creations, and people are trying to replace human creatures with AI. it’s fundamentally unsustainable. I am counting the days until the ai bubble pops and everyone can move on. although AI generated images, video, and audio will still probably be abused for the foreseeable future. (propaganda, porn, etc)
That is a good point, but I think I’d like to make the distinction of saying LLM’s or “generic model” is a garbage concept, which require power & water rivaling a small country to produce incorrect results.
Neural networks in general that can (cheaply) learn on their own for a specific task could be huge! But there’s no big money in that, since its not a consolidated general purpose product tech bros can flog to average consumers.
I really don’t understand why they’re simultaneously arguing that they need access to copyrighted works in order to train their AI while also dropping their non-profit status. If they were at least ostensibly a non-profit, they could pretend that their work was for the betterment of humanity or whatever, but now they’re basically saying, “exempt us from this law so we can maximize our earnings.” …and, honestly, our corrupt legislators wouldn’t have a problem with that were it not for the fact that bigger corporations with more lobbying power will fight against it.
There is no law that covers training.
You guys are the ones demanding a law that doesn’t exist.
Looks like it was a long game, and Altman didn’t just win, that fucker WON
Canceled my sub as a means of protest. I used it for research and testing purposes and 20$ wasn’t that big of a deal. But I will not knowingly support this asshole if whatever his company produces isn’t going to benefit anyone other than him and his cronies. Voting with our wallets may be the very last vestige of freedom we have left, since money equals speech.
I hope he gets raped by an irate Roomba with a broomstick.
Whoa, slow down there bruv! Rape jokes aren’t ok - that Roomba can’t consent!
But I will not knowingly support this asshole if whatever his company produces isn’t going to benefit anyone other than him and his cronies.
I mean it was already not open-source, right?
“Private Stabby reporting for duty!”
Good. If people would actually stop buying all the crap assholes are selling we might make some progress.
Sounds like another WeWork or Theranos in the making, except we already know the product doesn’t do what it promises.
I’m sure they were dead weight. I trust open AI completely and all tech gurus named Sam. Btw, what happened to that Crypto guy? He seemed so nice.
And there it goes the tech company way, i.e. to shit.
OpenAI is going to crash so hard.
What! A! Surprise!
I’m shocked, I tell you, totally and utterly shocked by this turn of events!
Sam Altman is demonstrating the power of AI. He’s showing how a single CEO can fire the entire company and continue to develop the product to be even better than when humans were involved.
“OpenAI. No real humans involved!” ™
Altman downplayed the major shakeup.
"Leadership changes are a natural part of companies
Is he just trying to tell us he is next?
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Oh shit! Here we go. At least we didn’t hand them 20 years of personal emails or direct interfamily communications.
So where are they all going? I doubt everyone is gonna find another non-profit or any altruistic motives, so <insert big company here> just snatches up more AI resources to try to grow their product.
Aren’t they going bankrupt next year ?
just came to me that his Alt-man name is quite fitting for AI
To be fair, the article linked this idiotic one about OpenAI’s “thirsty” data centers, where they talk about water “consumption” of cooling cycles… which are typically closed-loop systems.
My name is Saltyalman and I speak for the trees bee-ach!
Hes gonna be the first one the ai kills and i look forward to it
Good. Now do the rest of them.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
They should be required to change their name
dan@upvote.au 9 hours ago
It’s amusing. Meta’s AI team is more open than "Open"AI ever was - they publish so many research papers for free, and the latest versions of Llama are very capable models.
merari42@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s the famous “As long as your not Google, Amazon or Apple” licence.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
SkyNet.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I mean killer robots from the future could solve many problems. I can elaborate, but you’re going to have to think 4th dimensionally.