OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

With the many examples of companies that produce quality products that end up ruining everything when they switch to prioritize profit (and the product becomes enshittified), but in this case I would support it completely, the product is horrible from the very beginning, so if the switch makes more people realize how unnecessary, negative and crappy the product is, there I would consider this actual progress.

OpenAI's history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders.

Very not surprised. Especially since when you are scaling the last invention in human history.

Any “excess” profit would go back to the nonprofit, Brockman and Sutskever explained, though in practice little money has gone back to the nonprofit in recent years. Brockman has been on leave since August, leaving Altman one of the few early leaders still at the helm.

Mira in the picture just left OpenAI and Ilya has started his own corporation.

It is a race to produce the last invention but there may be several competing models.

The biggest issue is that OpenAI would have never been this successful without the content on the web. What they did and still do is data theft in an unprecedented scale, but no media outlet wants to talk about this.

So glad I sold all my Apple shares. Even if it ends up 10x, I would still not sleep well at night knowing Apple is in bedcwith Altman.

When you add that Apple is approved for sale in China whilst google Android is not. You know what Apple is prepared to sacrifice to make extraordinary profits - customers.

So all I want to know is if ChatGPT is going to cost money to use.

OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

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The $_$ signs are in their eyes.

it is sad when a not for profit who is helping humanity goes to the lets make lots of money and keep it side.