Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m off the same opinion, but why does Meta give a shit?

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t want to pay for-profit prices?

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They don’t use OpenAI at all.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know Meta has some heavy sins, but they’ve pushed ‘open’ ML a long time. They developed, and continue to fund PyTorch, and they basically standardized the open LLM architecture with Llama to the point literally everyone uses it almost unmodified now, just to name two examples.

    They also have a commercial interest in their open weight model ecosystem succeeding over OpenAI’s completely closed models and research. And TBH they have a good shot, as OpenAI really seem to have stagnated.

    Also, Altman is a straight up con artist. I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook employees hate him.

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    • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If Open AI becomes for-profit, it will have more resources to finance itself. It is currently in a similar situation to Mozilla, and it is not the first case, there have been several.

      One example was Mastercard, but in the process it created a foundation with the same name and it is also very rich. Open AI will probably follow a similar path

      Also, Llama is not open source according to the OSI

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you say all that but with synonyms of the words “open” and “close” where they aren’t part of names?

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  • Brain@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They have Meta AI baked into their apps now and are building a 10 Billion dollar AI facility in Louisiana that they want to use Nuclear Power to run.

    So I’m guessing the plan is to hurt the competition that is already ahead of them and hopefully get enough time to buy them out or pass them.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know things are bad when Zuckerberg is looking like the good guy.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s bizarre

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  • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It seems normal to me that a company takes questionable actions to avoid more competition.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It seems fit for them to get burned because of it

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