#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit
One OpenAI critic calls it “the theft of at least the millennium and quite possibly all of human history.” Are they right?
Back in 2015 OpenAI was but a humble nonprofit. That nonprofit started a for-profit, OpenAI LLC, but made sure to retain ownership and control. But that for-profit, having become a tech giant with vast staffing and investment, has grown tired of its shackles and wants to change the deal.
Facing off against it stand eight out-gunned and out-numbered part-time volunteers. Can they hope to defend the nonprofit’s interests against the overwhelming profit motives arrayed…
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