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zemo on Jan 24, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key document...

> OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI (the new Musk one) all have a funky governance structure because they want to be a public good

do they actually want to be a public good or do they want you to think they want to be a public good?

zx8080 on Jan 25, 2024 [–]

What? It's business. They want to make money for investors and owners. Whatever helps this main goal.

qwytw on Jan 25, 2024 | | [–]

Except OpenAI kept pretending that they aren't a real "business" for quite a while.

insane_dreamer on Jan 25, 2024 | | [–]

> They want to make money for investors and owners.

OpenAI was explicitly founded to NOT do that.

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