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95% of OpenAI employees have threatened to quit in standoff with board (arstechnica.com)
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95% of OpenAI employees have threatened to quit in standoff with board::OpenAI's future hangs in the balance as staff says they'll join former CEO at Microsoft.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do it! Do it you bootlickers!!! I'd have way more sympathy if this was over a union fight but this is just cult behavior and is really creepy - for the love of God I hope they do it - I wanna see this implode in on itself

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do or don't, Microsoft still win anyway. WinGPT incoming...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course it is, that was always the case. Anyone that genuinely believed there was any non-profit, humanitarian, risk-averse future for this technology was drinking copious amounts of Kool aid.

These things have been designed, from day 1, with the explicit purpose of killing labor and making a lot of people richer. This was never, ever, a tool for the common man.

AI is the capitalist equivalent of a Death Star. Now that they have it, what the hell else do you think was going to happen?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So? No matter who owns it it's still a massive invasion of privacy at the minimum - at least look on it as the shit show it is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t see the existence or use of GPT to be a “massive invasion of privacy” — although I agree that the chat logs can be very personal.

What aspects are you concerned about?

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

Microsoft and Google literally take any personal files you have stored on one drive or Google drive and use it to train their models - I'd say that's a massive invasion of privacy

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

Google’s privacy policy states this is only true for public documents: “use publicly available information to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities”.

That seems different from your claim.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  1. Microsoft partnership with OpenAI
  2. Microsoft hires brain of OpenAI
  3. OpenAI employees threaten to quit - and then do
  4. OpenAI value tumbles
  5. Microsoft buys open AI for the IP
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
  1. The Board gets a sweet golden parachute from the buyout despite tanking the company.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

They only give a damn about their RSUs/stock options. Altman is a profiteer who will make them more money.