• kippinitreal@lemmy.world
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    Putting my tin foil hat on… Sam Altman knows the AI train might be 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.

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      2 months ago

      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.

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          It honestly just never occurred to me that such a transformation was allowed/possible. A nonprofit seems to imply something charitable, though obviously that’s not the true meaning of it. Still, it would almost seem like the company benefits from the goodwill that comes with being a nonprofit but then gets to transform that goodwill into real gains when they drop the act and cease being a nonprofit.

          I don’t really understand most of this shit though, so I’m probably missing some key component that makes it make a lot more sense.

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            A nonprofit seems to imply something charitable, though obviously that’s not the true meaning of it

            Life time of propaganda got people confused lol

            Nonprofit merely means that their core income generating activities are not subject next to the income tax regimes.

            While some non profits are charities, many are just shelters for rich people’s bullshit behaviors like foundations, lobby groups, propaganda orgs, political campaigns etc

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      If you can’t make money without stealing copywritten works from authors without proper compensation, you should be shut down as a company