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Seriously though why do they call it Open ?

They were originally founded as a non-profit that would ensure open and equal access to advanced AI, so it wouldn't be locked up in the hands of a few corporations.

And then they realized there was a lot of money to be made, and switched to a for-profit: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...

Now they lock up their most successful advancements, under the guise that if they released things for free they would be abused... but then their results are replicated and released for free by others, and we see there's no meaningful abuse (e.g. unstoppable spam).

They still do amazing research, and publish lots of papers, but that's a pre-req for them to hold on to their talent.

Not that I condone openais bait and switch routine, but it's a bit too early to say there are no reprecussions such as mass unstoppable spam resulting from this technology. This scenario is unfolding, and it seems that at least some of the spammy content created these days is Auto generated.

Because it sounds good and is good marketing. Maybe they also believed their own initial promises to work in the open and open-source at the time.

It's not like they had a tag line of "Don't be evil"

Because they publish and are open about their research towards AGI.

Other serious players went dark and that is very concerning (if you believe a non aligned AGI is a existencial threat for humanity).

This is admittedly important

These is nothing "open" about them. They release nothing of actual importance to the public.

All models are behind closed doors, you only get a nice website to interface with a fraction of what they release to the public.

Which other players went dark?

> Other serious players went dark and that is very concerning

Not really all that concerning, they just realized it's a dead end with our current day tech

Because it's open to interpretation ^^

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