Timnit Gebru on LinkedIn: Documents show OpenAI's long journey ...
How much money in taxes did OpenAI not pay California while duping everyone who can't wait to be duped, telling the world that they're performing their humanity saving endeavors as a nonprofit?
We go through this and see people repeating the same thing with Anthropic and the likes as they did with OpenAI. People just want to fund any white dude that says he's gonna save the world and is "more ethical" than the current white dude aiming to save the world.
OpenAI's Structural Issues
In the application, OpenAI indicated it did not plan to enter into any joint ventures with for-profit organizations, which it has since done. It also said it did “not plan to play any role in developing commercial products or equipment,” and promised to make its research freely available to the public.
IMO the whole OpenAI structure and operating model is just a lawsuit and / or enforcement action waiting to happen. In another thread a lawyer I very much trust posted a link to a legal paper on just that issue, and I am kinda just waiting for the reckoning. A bit like antitrust laws finally caught up with Google. 🤷♀️
Transparency Issues
"Open"AI has never really open-sourced anything. I'd love them to have full disclosure not only when it comes to source code and training data but also the mechanisms (read: exploitation of labor) used to train their models. Complete lack of transparency everywhere. Putting nice words into mission statements and blog posts doesn't mean much when actions speak louder than words.
CEO @StartStak | Strategy & GTM | Advisor | TED Speaker | AI Practitioner & Artist | Pavilion + Chief Executive Member Hospitals systems do this. Mega churches do this. Tax strategies matter, even to tech bros.
Legal and Ethical Concerns
It's incredible how a company can get away with seemingly fraudulently obtaining these massive government subsidies meant for charities, take on billions in "investments" from the worst people in the world, and still manages to lose billions of dollars a year on a non-functional product that is causing a staggering level of water, air, and information pollution. Mind boggles.
Challenges in Tech Industry
Thank you for an essential reminder on ''How the problem started''! As it seems - it started with pre-mediated fraud. There is no other explanation for ways about how things happened - in this ''long journey''.
Two decades back - ''Napster'' was sued after only few months of operation for ''Creating the technology that enables others to break copyright laws''. In legal terms - exactly the same judgement can be applied today to muriad of companies. The only reason it is not the case - must be bribery!
Conclusion
Laws about IP and copyright are in place since the 90s. And so - why those IP laws are not enforced today? Since the 90s - entire countries were exposed to sanctions and various forms of ''punishments'' for not respecting copyright & IP laws.
Or perhaps - international laws don't always work the same for everyone? freedomtechnology.org | ghostcopywrite.com
