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jmoletoday at 3:37 PM4 repliesview on HN

This seems like a bad decision to me that will ultimately harm consumers, if anyone can launch a product and say it’s made by “OpenAI”.


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VorpalWaytoday at 3:42 PM

Well, they could have used a less generic and misleading name (it is not very open, as noted in the article). OpenAI only really have themselves to blame here.

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NBJacktoday at 3:55 PM

You know, if it was someone offering a truly open (weights + training data) and available model running on consumer hardware in a privacy sandbox, I would welcome that "harm".

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TazeTSchnitzeltoday at 3:41 PM

OpenAI would probably still have some kind of claim against a company that did that.

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7bittoday at 3:47 PM

"It will harm consumers"

Ah yes, chosing a name that transports openness and transparency when the opposite is the case, and complaining about not being able to register that name as a trademark, which will cause financial harm the said company -- but somehow there's still people to spin it the other way around so it harms consumers now, therefore it was a bad decision.

That's the definition of anti-consumer behavior

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