alt Hacker NewsAnyone can make these silly negations. As if any other big corp is different. And as if your own imaginary big corp (if you took the time and effort to try to achieve, that is) would have behaved differently given enough pressure from investors and share holders.
This is all just very naive
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Sorry, no, you shouldn't just handwave away bad behavior just because it's common. That's ridiculous.
If big corporations do things that are unethical, they should be called out, even if they're common. Saying "well everyone's doing it", isn't a good excuse to do things that are unethical.
It's not "naive" to point out the lies that OpenAI told to get to the point that they are now. They were claiming to be a non-profit for awhile, they grew in popularity based in part on that early good-will, and now they are a for-profit company looking to IPO into one of the most valuable corporations on the planet. That's a weird thing. That's a thing that seems to be kind of antithetical to their initial purpose. People should point that out.
> Anyone can make these silly negations. As if any other big corp is different.
The point you're desperately trying to miss is that most other companies don't put up those moral claims in the first place