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OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public

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614 points nickthegreek | 2 comments | 24 Jan 24 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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crowcroft ◴[24 Jan 24 20:55 UTC] No.39122523[source]▶
How could the board let this happen!

More seriously, this is both an obvious outcome, and also feels a bit shady?

It's true that OpenAI needs A LOT of money/capital, and so needs funding and partnerships which leads to this kind of thing.

But it's also true that the only reason they got exist in the first place and got to this point, is by pitching themselves as an 'open', almost public good kind of company and took donations based on this.

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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[24 Jan 24 20:58 UTC] No.39122560[source]▶
> the only reason they got exist in the first place and got to this point, is by pitching themselves as an 'open'

What supports this? In Column B are conventionally-structured AI projects.

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2. crowcroft ◴[24 Jan 24 21:36 UTC] No.39122914[source]▶
[1] OpenAI’s Nonprofit received approximately $130.5 million in total donations, which funded the Nonprofit’s operations and its initial exploratory work in deep learning, safety, and alignment.

How many of those conventionally structured AI projects existed before ChatGPT?

Maybe the donations aren't the ONLY reason, maybe they could have done a normal rounding of funding and got here, but they didn't.

I do think it's fair to say that while they got $130m in donations they needed A LOT more money, and so they need to raise somewhere, somehow. To me it's a big gray area though.

[1] https://openai.com/our-structure