[cardine]

OpenAI didn't pick that name arbitrarily.

Here was their manifesto when they first started: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai

> OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.

> We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as possible. The outcome of this venture is uncertain and the work is difficult, but we believe the goal and the structure are right. We hope this is what matters most to the best in the field.

OpenAI as it exists right now contradicts basically every single thing they said they would be. I think that is a nontrivial issue!

[ryanwaggoner]

I disagree that they contradict every single thing they said they would be, and I fundamentally just don't care that they've shifted their positions. Are they a force for good or evil now? I think that remains to be seen, but I don't care about their name.

[cardine]

You might not care but that doesn't make calling them out for reneging on their original mission a trivial and unsubstantial critique.