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OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public

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614 points nickthegreek | 6 comments | 24 Jan 24 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source | bottom
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d3m0t3p ◴[24 Jan 24 19:35 UTC] No.39121676[source]▶
Why are people surprised that openAI is closed since we know they don’t share anything since chatGPT was launched and they got billion in investments
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JumpCrisscross ◴[24 Jan 24 19:51 UTC] No.39121831[source]▶
> Why are people surprised that openAI is closed

The surprise is more at the (EDIT: brazen) pathological lying.

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pierat ◴[24 Jan 24 19:58 UTC] No.39121894[source]▶
it's governed by VC execs. No shit they're lying - their mouths are moving.
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1. refulgentis ◴[24 Jan 24 19:59 UTC] No.39121901[source]▶
n.b. It's not, that's why it was possible for them to move on from Altman
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2. RockCoach ◴[24 Jan 24 22:17 UTC] No.39123341[source]▶
> n.b. It's not, that's why it was possible for them to move on from Altman

That's only under the assumption that the split with Altman was due to the doomers vs bloomers conflict and not just a dirty move from OpenAI board member Adam D'Angelo, trying to protect his investment in Quora's AI Poe.

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3. mtlmtlmtlmtl ◴[24 Jan 24 23:01 UTC] No.39123823[source]▶
They didn't move on from Altman did they? So was it really possible?
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4. refulgentis ◴[25 Jan 24 02:40 UTC] No.39125623[source]▶
They didn't fail to get rid of Altman because the board is VCs. Because the board is not VCs.
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5. refulgentis ◴[25 Jan 24 02:42 UTC] No.39125642[source]▶
I'm not familiar with either fanfic, beyond the one-sentence pitch[1]. I'm not sure why one of the two has to be true for reality (the board is not VCs) to be true

[1] RIP "they switched everyone to prepaid billing!!!11!" I ate probably -10 saying "no, you got that email saying it was available because it was a feature announced at devday as coming soon"

6. qwytw ◴[25 Jan 24 09:00 UTC] No.39127609{3}[source]▶
> Because the board is not VCs.

Except that's not really true. Almost everyone on the board were either VCs themselves or had very strong ties to the them. In any case OpenAI would be irrelevant without significant investments from organizations/people who want a return on them. So it's basically a moot point: no VCs/big corporations = no fancy,extremely expensive to train & develop LLMs.