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Sanders: Government should break up OpenAI

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46 points CharlesW | 1 comments | 01 Nov 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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meowface ◴[01 Nov 25 20:02 UTC] No.45784860[source]▶
Unpopular opinion here but I don't see any benefit in breaking up goliaths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, OpenAI.

OpenAI (optically) came out of nowhere and took over everything in a few years. A future company also could. We should punish violation of regulations and the law when it occurs. We don't need to be interfering just because we feel a company is too good at being a company.

If OpenAI violated anything with the recent non-profit stuff, sue or charge them.

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BrenBarn ◴[01 Nov 25 21:00 UTC] No.45785296[source]▶
> A future company also could.

Then they should be broken up too.

> We don't need to be interfering just because we feel a company is too good at being a company.

We absolutely do, because "being good at being a company" has become a sort of paperclip-maximizing game that is pretty well divorced from anything beneficial to society.

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1. meowface ◴[02 Nov 25 02:19 UTC] No.45787364[source]▶
>We absolutely do, because "being good at being a company" has become a sort of paperclip-maximizing game that is pretty well divorced from anything beneficial to society.

I doubt that that's true. In some cases at some companies, but I wouldn't be surprised if harm to society is per capita more likely at non-monopolies than at monopolies.