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To be fair (or frank?), OpenAI were open (no pun intended) about them being "open" today but probably needing to be "closed" in the future, even back in 2019. Not sure if them still choosing the name they did is worse/better, because they seem to have known about this.

OpenAI Charter 2019 (https://web.archive.org/web/20190630172131/https://openai.co...):

> We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI. Today this includes publishing most of our AI research, but we expect that safety and security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future, while increasing the importance of sharing safety, policy, and standards research.

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I honestly believe that they closed things up not because of concerns about "safety and security" but because it was the most profitable thing to do. Other groups are publishing models that are just as good (maybe with a bit of lag compared to OpenAI), and OpenAI seems to have gutted their own safety teams.

The fact that OpenAI removed their ban on military use of the models[1] seems to be a sign that security and safety aren't the highest concern.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/16/openai-quietly-removes-ban-o...

Job security and financial safety

Any time I hear vague corporate statements like that I like to play a game of "what words did they leave unsaid"?

>>Today this includes publishing most of our AI research, but we expect that safety [of our profits] and [job] security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future

Safety and security is not why they are not showing chain of thought here though. Profit is. They cite "Competitive Advantage" directly. He admit it! [1]

"Safety and security." Probably the two most warped and abused words in the English language.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2xBNWrBZ4

The non-profit was created in 2015. So what if 5 years later when creating a taxable sub the hinted it was over for the non-profit. It's the same violation o trust whether done at once or in pieces over time.

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