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theoryofx | 10 months ago

"We made the decision for the nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI after hearing from..." [CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN CALIFORNIA AND DELAWARE]

This indicates that they didn't actually want the nonprofit to retain control and they're only doing it because they were forced to by threats of legal action.

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cadamsdotcom|10 months ago

Commercial entities aren’t social beings. They’re asocial goal-maximizers.

Threats of legal action are among the only behavioral signals it can act on while staying in its mandate. Others include regulation and the market.

This is all operating as it was designed, by humans, multiple economic cycles ago.

HaZeust|10 months ago

When I read that, I was actually fairly surprised about how brazen they were about who they called on for this action. They simply just said it.