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OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman (futurism.com)
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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The restructuring could turn the already for-profit company into a more traditional startup and give CEO Sam Altman even more control — including likely equity worth billions of dollars.

I can see why he would want that, yes. We're supposed to ooo and ahh at a technical visionary, who is always ultimately a money guy executive who wants more money and more executive power.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saw an interesting video about this. It's outdated (from ten months ago, apparently) but added some context that I, at least, was missing - and that also largely aligns with what you said. Also, though it's not super evident in this video, I think the presenter is fairly funny.

https://youtu.be/L6mmzBDfRS4

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That was a worthwhile watch, thank you for making my life better.

I await the coming AI apocalypse with hope that I am not awake, aware, or sensate when they do whatever it is they'll do to use or get rid of me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You will be kept alive at subsistence level to buy the stuff you’ve been told to buy, don’t worry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah but what about the future?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My pleasure! Glad it helped. Also, I like your username.

I'm still not sure how much to fear AI, as I'm not knowledgeable on the subject (never even intentionally interacted with one yet) and have seen conflicting reports on how worryingly capable it is. Today I did see this video, which isn't explicitly about AI but did offer an interesting perspective that could be compared to the paradigm: https://youtu.be/fVN_5xsMDdg

(Warning, the video was interesting, but I got invested about halfway through when I started comparing it to AI, then was disappointed in the ending)