Not what I intended at all." - Elon
You can think what you want of Elon, but he is in the right here.
Maybe they just wants to express how much they don't like Elon any opportunity they gets.
It is similar to what Microsoft did with Facebook in the early days of slowing acquiring a stake in the company. But this is an aggressive version of that with OpenAI. What you have now is the exact opposite of their original goals in: [0]
Before:
> Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. [0]
After:
> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity. [1]
The real 'Open AI' is Stability AI, since they are more willing to release their work and AI models rather than OpenAI was supposed to do.
Do we have any reason to believe this isn't just more empty grifting from him to optically distance himself from a unethical company he profits from?
He is not part of it any more.
>In 2018, Musk resigned his board seat, citing "a potential future conflict [of interest]" with his role as CEO of Tesla due to Tesla's AI development for self-driving cars, but remained a donor
I don't think he counts as an investor, and I'd imagine he has stopped donating.
If people are feeling conflicted about who the asshole is in this situation, don't be, they are all morally bankrupt assholes who all already have many lifetimes of unimaginable wealth yet must take ever more. These are not people who should have any power in our world.
I would add this one:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630640058507116553
I had no idea about this drama either, so I didn't understand what Elon was talking about, now it seems clear.
But "Based"? Is it the name of his new AI company? Where does that come from?
on 4chan it's largely used to mean something along the lines of "fitting the 4chan anti-groupthink groupthink"
See also "pilled."
It seems a bit ironic that "evil" Google openly published the paper ("Attention is all you need") that desribes the "Transformer" architecture that now anyone such as OpenAI with the money and inclination can use to build their own ChatGPT. Turns out it's about money (10,000 GPUs + tons of data to train this thing) not any secret sauce.
And now Musk's concern has changed from AI being in too few hands to the fact that it's "woke" so he wants to create another AI company to create the racist/threatening non-woke AI that he thinks the world needs. Or, at least the one that he needs, to keep himself at the center of attention.
There's nuance to the etymology of any word of course. In fact I sometimes see the extremely online left try to (ironically?) appropriate "based." But I think in the context we can all figure out which connotation Elon was using.
it's just general internet speak at this point
Lil B
(based ≈ doing your own thing (in a good way)
not swayed by critics)
↙ ↘
Gen Z 4chan
(based ≈ cool) ("based and redpilled"
≈"unswayed by pop rhetoric"
and "sees the world beyond the 'illusion'", resp.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chapman_(American_activis...
The whole "ELON MUSK BAD NOW" change to the zeitgeist is alarming to me. He was the darling of the left for years because of Tesla and SpaceX, but now he's completely persona non grata for...reasons?
It smacks of excommunication for heresy.
How you can build a successful car company in the US without getting super rich, I don't know.
It's a reference to the BasedGPT "jailbroken" ChatGPT persona that responds to answers in a less politically correct manner.
It is also a catchphrase of the extremely online left with exactly the same in-group vs. out-group implication (and, amusingly—because of the different meanings of “liberal” and “lib” favored by the two sides—usually identical meaning with regard to “libs/normies”.)