Makes sense. I'd sell my soul for much less, as would most of you. If they didn't sell their soul, that would be more of a surprise.
Google makes money not from selling me a good product, but by selling my information, and Microsoft seems determined to confuse and frustrate, profiting from lockin rather than quality.
Yes, I'm concerned that Apple is selling ads.
I agree that this was a terrible decision (although as a non-Apple user, I wouldn't care except that so many non-Apple companies followed Apple's lead here).
But to be fair, that's a product design decision, not really one with moral implications.
It's a common expression I see around here, but you do not know their profit motives. You only know their marketing and hold a perception of them. They are not the same thing, there cannot be alignment.
I think we are okay with selling of the soul, it was the rhetoric that they were good, honest, and open before hand. This comes across as just another VC marketing pitch where greed underlies everything in the end. That is where the sourness comes from.
Call it a pivot.
I want to believe this, rather than he lost the key or that it's that other guy who has chosen not to be anonymous.
If they were not called OpenAI probably such blog posts would be written.
Given how much ahead they are, they can safely rename the company if they wish to do so.