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Sam Altman admits OpenAI has been on the wrong side of history with Open-Source (lemmy.ml)

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 26 points 2 days ago

Can someone ELI5? He's admitting it was never truly open? Or they were wrong for thinking open was good at all?

[-] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 days ago

OpenAI was started to be as open as possible, and to prevent the kinds of capitalism-driven Closed-AI development that they have now themselves become.

My personal opinion is that closed AI systems are only good if the owners are trustworthy. And in the long-run, no single owner can be trusted. There are risks with letting everyone copy and customize AI, however the worse danger is that the power gets too centralized with one single company.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

OpenAI was started to be as open as possible, and to prevent the kinds of capitalism-driven Closed-AI development that they have now themselves become.

No, that was what OpenAI said its goals originally were. They were lying. They always intended for it to become a capitalist venture. Anyone who listens to Tech Won’t Save Us or This Machine Kills or Team Human have known all along. Or anyone like me who’s been in the industry for thirty years.