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>>modele+(OP)
If OpenAI became a non-profit with this in its charter:

“resulting technology will benefit the public and the corporation will seek to open source technology for the public benefit when applicable. The corporation is not organized for the private gain of any person"

I don't think it is going to be hard to show that they are doing something very different than what they said they were going to do.

>>troupe+Kd1
So much of the discussion here is about being a non-profit, but per your quote I think the key is open source. Here we have people investing in an open source company, and the company never opened their source. Rather than open source technology everyone could profit from, they kept everything closed and sold exclusive access. I think it is going to be hard for OpenAI to defend their behavior, and a huge amount of damages to be claimed for all the money investors had to spend catching up.

>>stubis+qi2
I might be too generous, but my interpretation is that the ground changed so fast that they needed to shift to continue the mission given the new reality. After ChatGPT, every for-profit and its dog is going hard. Talent can join the only Mother Teresa in the middle, or compete with them as they stupidly open all the source the second they discover anything. You can’t compete with the biggest labs in the world who have infinite GPU, with selfless open sourcers running training on their home PC’s. And you need to be in the game to have any influence over the eventual direction. I’d still bet the goal is the same, but how it’s done has changed by necessity.

>>richar+yn2
All of this was intentional. The goal the whole time was to eventually pull the rug out from the non-profit. This should be considered fraud.

>>bmitc+tF2
The original charter is nothing more than a marketing copy. And companies are legally allowed to change their marketing copy over time and are not bound to stick to it in behavior. The marketing was for the investors and they should be the first to know that such promises are subject to how reality unfolds. In other words a team can raise money by promising milestones but they are allowed to pivot the whole business and not just abandon milestones if the reality of the business demands it.