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>>isaacf+(OP)
This seems an important article, if for no other reason than it brings the betrayal of its foundational claim still brazenly present in OpenAI's name from the obscurity of HN comments going back years into the public light and the mainstream.

They've achieved marvellous things, OpenAI, but the pivot and long-standing refusal to deal with it honestly leaves an unpleasant taste, and doesn't bode well for the future, especially considering the enormous ethical implications of advantage in the field they are leading.

>>mellos+pe
Yay for competition.

>>asah+zk
Stability straight up proved that OpenAIs ideas around the importance of locking the tech up and guard railing it is all a big waste of time.

The world didn’t end when anyone could run Dall-E 2 level image gen on gamer hardware and without guardrails. Instead we got to integrate that power into tools like Blender, Photoshop, Krita etc for free.

First company to democratize ChatGPT tech in the same way will own this space and OpenAIs offering will once again become irrelevant overnight.

>>whywhy+cm
That's like saying:

> Ford straight up proved that Béla Barényi (of Mercedes Benz) ideas around crumple zones is all a big waste of time. The world didn't end with the 1938 Ford Prefect[0].

The world won't end overnight with an open fork of ChatGPT.

But it will mean the signal-to-noise ratio rapidly shifts, that spammers and scammers will be much more effective, and that even minor special interest groups (or individuals) get the ability to cheaply fake a diverse crowd of people to support any cause at a slightly higher standard of discourse than the current waterline for random internet comments.

[0] I don't know for certain it didn't have a crumple zone, but given when the patent was granted to Mercedes Benz…

>>ben_w+hu
That car analogy doesn't work because Mercedes Benz didn't actively work against other cars from existing.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7nby/researchers-think-ai-...