Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI?

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Somehow the name suggested to me that I could find ways to reproduce the model. I understand that it is huge and probably undoable for a single person without large amounts of resources, but it still annoys me that the term "open" is (ab)used in this way.

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They are open as in you can actually use it, in contrast to Google's LLM that you can only read about in papers.

Yeah, but come on, in the software world I'd say "open" stands for something, quite specifically.

May be, but there are other “open” companies. Opendoor, OpenText, OpenGov.

Ok true. At least they are not called LibreAI.

Open AI sounds better than closed AI like Potato chips rather than Heart attack salty greasy crunchers

One could say they are being cautious since It's a very novel technology open for misuse. And profit. You don't just release complex, highly capable models for charity. They are a for-profit company after all. It is a business they have the right to use their edge for profit. Also they are not as closed. They offer APIs for many products and some other ones outright release their sources (especially whisper, a godsent gift for me). Unlike Google's AI research which one commenter pointed out.

They’ve sparked plenty of open source, do your research if you care. Regardless, OpenAI owes nothing to anyone.

It's as open as a black box. OpenAI has always been a for profit scam the moment they got a cash investment from Microsoft and other VCs.

Open as in free trial. Great progress in their tech and documentation though.

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