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I know OpenAI has been getting a lot of flack about their seemingly extreme measures of "safety" (and I agree to an extent, although it's more nuanced from my perspective), full kudos to them for open sourcing many useful projects that can serve as the building block for many other projects. From CLIP, to Whisper, and now this project, I do appreciate that effort from their team. So thanks, if you're reading this!

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The main complaints against OpenAI have been it's lack of openness and betrayal of it's claimed founding principles.

In that context "open sourcing many useful projects" seems the bare minimum it should be doing, because that was the promise still enshrined in it's name - this is not a bog-standard commercial organisation where that would not be expected.

To be clear OpenAI does deserve massive kudos for it's achievements but openness is not among them.

It's not for safety, it is to make money. The "open" storyline is to get relatively cheap goodwill off things that market their paid products.

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