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Openai: A corporate known to normalize the abuse of word open despite being anything but
I’m definitely going to need someone to dumb this down for me and/or further explain. I don’t know enough about how OpenAI is structured, or about said structures, to know if what they are doing is odd or how it equates to “theft.” They use that word a lot and IMO it’s to try to make you believe it’s theft. But I have no clue if it is.
Basically OpenAI has been a nonprofit organisation with a profit cap.
Meaning that while they stole vast troves of data it would in theory return more value to its users than they paid to access it.
With OpenAI becoming a public benefit corporation they will be able to pursue unlimited profits.
OpenAI has also had a majority stake in OpenAI so has been able to control the direction of the organisation.
That will change with investors now having the majority stake and OpenAI having a 26% share.
Basically the ‘theft’ here is that future profits will flow to shareholders instead of reinvestment into OpenAI.
There was never any plan for distribution of wealth from OpenAI to the public or governments so I find calling this theft a bit of a reach.
It’s OpenAI who openly admitted that they couldn’t work without stealing copyrighted material, so I don’t doubt it…
but ye I’m confused about this too
