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Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed::Protesters at OpenAI’s office demanded the startup cease military work. But first...

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[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

Why does everyone hold this company is such high regard? They didn't fucking do anything revolutionary that wasn't already being worked on

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 8 months ago
[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Not really, we have FOSS LLMs that predate ChatGPT not to mention the good old /r/SubsimulatorGPT2 and AI Dungeon etc.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

This is basically old Palo Alto VC money propping things up. They don't even have to earn a profit as long as they stay in startup mode.

[-] banghida@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago
[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They didn’t fucking do anything revolutionary that wasn’t already being worked on

They did it first. I can produce light at the flick of a switch, but nobody is impressed since that shit has been done before.

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