Yeah, more or less. Being in the application space as well as the inference space hedges a variety of risks, that inference margins will squeeze, that competition will continue to increase, etc etc.
Their contribution to opensouurce and open research is far behind other organisations like Meta and Mistral, as welcome as their recent model release is. Former security researchers like Jan Leike commonly cite a lack of organisational focus on security as a reason for leaving.
Not sure specifically what the commenter is referring to re: scammy, but things like the Scarlett Johansson / Her voice imitation and copyright infringement come to mind for me.
Nitpick - it's the ML system that is sampling from model predictions that has a temperature parameter, not the model itself. Temperature and even model aside, there are other sources of randomness like the underlying hardware that can cause the havoc you describe.
It's also very regressive, at least in isolation. Income tax rates are progressive, but lower income families spend more of their total income on goods so tariff will hurt them more proportionally.
I've always wondered, when do policies become nanny state policies? If they have data showing that under-age use of social media leads to higher rates of suicide, why would that be a 'nanny state' policy? Does there have to be a gun or drug involved, rather than a phone?
What rhetoric is that? He's a felon. He questioned Harris' racial identity during the campaign. He claimed at numerous rallies that boys would come home from school as girls without their parents knowledge.
Even if you support his economic approach, for example, wouldn't his criminal behaviour, or his racist and transphobic views disqualify him? One does not wash away the other.
Because models do so in competition with humans, in a way that threatens their way of life. Atleast until the rewards and benefits of ML are shared fairly, people don't to help accelerate that.
He's saying the attempt to virtue signal, via the low salary, is invalidated by these deals. The virtues would be mostly altruism I guess, that the AGI mission was important enough to humanity for him to sacrifice opportunities to build personal wealth and so on. I think that's overblown personally, but certainly Altman would often repeat the line about having low salary and no equity.
If you are a CEO, especially of a quasi non-profit, and you start a for-profit investment vehicle as part of this organisation, you should tell the board that.
Tech loves drama just like anyone else, haha. But this recent pattern of drama that follows Altman is of his own making, although perhaps he is under more scrutiny than most, reflecting OpenAIs importance in our industry.