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Yep, if this goes through, looks like his take-over was already complete. They waited (way) too long.

If Microsoft ends up essentially at the helm of OpenAI after this all this then I'll know we are living in a tragic comedy.

Your details were wrong but your sentiment is turning horribly right

Yeah, too little too late. Amputation will not stop the cultural cancer now.

No matter though. Open source alternatives are catching up in a fraction of the development time. OpenAI has been left behind in the race for Open AI.

The cherry on top would be if, in all the chaos of employee departures, the GPT-4 weights got leaked online.

Probably would be the best thing that could happen in turns of actually making AI "open", but also would unleash utter mayhem in the marketplace.

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