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>>isaacf+(OP)
I like that the corporate bullshit just keeps getting more. Google’s “don’t be evil” is many steps down from openai having open in their name.

They should be called OpenAI with (not open) in small print.

I argue a lot over “open source” software with non-OSI license and sometimes worry if I’m too pedantic. But I think it’s important to use terms accurately and not to confuse reality more than it already is by calling stuff that’s not one thing by that thing’s name.

I wonder if google and openai truly started out with these ideals and were just corrupted and overpowered by standard organizational greed. Or it was always bullshit.

>>prepen+kp
Corporate bullshit goes way back. There are certain systemic forces which are simply unavoidable if your company is to survive in a competitive market. One of them is the inevitable turn toward profit-making, and the kinds of pivots you need to make in order to achieve profitability.

The same forces are at play when companies decided to make "company towns" and do things like "shoot all the workers who stood up for better pay".