Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit (arstechnica.com)
from bloup@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@beehaw.org on 02 Dec 2024 23:56
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/25913773

Musk says for-profit OpenAI harms public interest—and his own company, xAI.

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ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com on 03 Dec 2024 00:45 next collapse

So is sounds like effectively his donation was supposed to force them to stay open and develop tech on the cheap that he could then take to use in his commercial systems.

Linktank@lemmy.today on 03 Dec 2024 00:59 next collapse

Somebody should slap some kind of lock on that dudes cockholster. Sick of reading his name. Never interested in hearing his opinion on anything again for as long as I live.

boonhet@lemm.ee on 03 Dec 2024 02:58 next collapse

Right now it’s an instance of broken clock being right. OPENAi is a nonprofit. Its proceeds should go into further research and the models should be open sourced - like they used to be! Instead they want to milk it as much as possible quickly.

madis@lemm.ee on 03 Dec 2024 05:53 collapse

They used to be? When?

ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org on 03 Dec 2024 07:13 next collapse

GPT 1 and 2 were both more open than later releases. However I’m not sure any are fully FOSS.

boonhet@lemm.ee on 03 Dec 2024 07:38 collapse

Okay, I was a bit wrong - they were not REALLY open source, but they had the whitepaper available, they published the dataset, and you could download the model itself, just not the source code. You can find it here

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip on 03 Dec 2024 06:29 collapse

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Hegar@fedia.io on 03 Dec 2024 03:36 next collapse

Grifters trying to stymie competing grifts is the ideal use of our throughly corrupt court system. Just the perfect venue for that. It's like an inception of lies and money.

starman@programming.dev on 03 Dec 2024 06:18 next collapse

Isn’t he right this time?

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 03 Dec 2024 09:33 next collapse

It’s already for-profit, he just doesn’t want to have it called that

abbadon420@lemm.ee on 03 Dec 2024 11:15 next collapse

Something something a broken clock

Arkthos@pawb.social on 03 Dec 2024 14:41 collapse

Yeah it is kind of dumb that you can turn from being non-profit to for-profit if it turns out you’ve struck gold. Cheapens the value of non-profits everywhere if they can turn that around whenever they feel like it.

Umbrias@beehaw.org on 03 Dec 2024 20:58 collapse

they didnt strike gold, they are trying to inflict their value crash on the public market. effects will be far reaching, including but not limited to people’s retirement plans.

AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com on 03 Dec 2024 09:29 next collapse

Everyone's the asshole here.

skozzii@lemmy.ca on 03 Dec 2024 15:30 collapse

Elon is just mad he didn’t think of it first.

Breve@pawb.social on 03 Dec 2024 21:22 collapse

No, he did try it back in 2017:

“In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entity,” OpenAI said. “Elon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding. Reid Hoffman bridged the gap to cover salaries and operations.”

Elmo is just throwing a tantrum because he wanted to be the one to take them private and roll them into Tesla but the rest of the board said no.