I would expect them to start out with something like Apple is suing us for yada yada yada, but instead it reads like the diary of a hurt teenager.
Its insane this is coming from a company with as much scope as openai. Scope may not be the right word.
The companies can suck and their product can do amazing things at the same time.
I posted this in another comment but this was weird: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
I think the pendulum will then swing back to the expectation that companies act and behave like adults rather than cringy kids trying to be cool.
Yep, down to the pages of iMessage screenshots
For the first reason alone, it's worth it when you can.
If you don't know what's going on, this blog post is nonsensical and makes OpenAI look weird.
If you do know what's going on, you'll immediately notice they don't address 80% of the stuff Apple is accusing them of, which makes OpenAI look dishonest.
It just seems incredibly unprofessional and ill-considered.
Specifically Thoughts on Flash, but there were probably more such press releases.
[0] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/steve-job...
It's always suspect when one side tries to argue their case in the court of public opinion.
Frankly, it's a big red flag for me and immediately casts suspicion on said party. I mean, do you think you're going to lose in court and so you're trying to get out ahead of that?
Posting this is insane in the sense of "What will posting this possibly improve for OpenAI?"
It's not going to change the court case. It's not going to impress professional adults.
I guess... teenage reddit users with too much time on their hands who are fans of OpenAI? Though struggling to see how that demo would care about a theft of trade secrets case.
Whatever executive decision-making thread led to this being released needs to be recalibrated. I'd expect >13 year old maturity from a company even 1/10 the size of OpenAI.
"OpenAI is so inept at system isolation that it accidentally hacked Huggingface" seems like a more important PR fire to put out. (Whether or not that breach was artificially manufactured)
...you expected more from OpenAI leadership? Based on previous incidents this seems kinda par.
Just not clear who is…
They literally have communication experts sitting there, breaking their heads over how to influence the public opinion in the company’s favor.
I guess they learned it from Elon: if people like you, they’ll just hold your stock forever, even if you don’t make much money.
But... it turns out that professional people and consulting companies who have years of experience in a subject area might have something to offer. Who knew?!
Regular companies have people that talk to the media or maybe run some ads. OpenAI is trying to have in-house media.
For a frontier lab it’s striking just how much energy (and dough) goes into this.
You’re right of course that PR exists elsewhere, but that obviously true assertion misses the finer details of how PR works at OpenAI. In doing so it functions as a thought-terminating cliché.
Is that the Elon lesson? I see him behave terribly and suffer little consequence. Much like his political buddies.
This guy from Weil claims to be representing you. For some reason, he is lying about speaking with me on the phone. I don't know who he is and we have never spoken.
I don't know what the point of his lie is, but could you please confirm if he is actually representing you, and if so, whether you have other counsel you can use. I don’t think interacting through him is appropriate given this behavior.
--- So, a lawyer emailed the wrong person. That's it. And they use that as a peg to hang their whole case on. I guess GPT 6 thought this was the real smoking gun!
Not simply that you should, but why? Conducting onesself with decorum and professionalism in certain contexts is not about deception. It's about respecting other people, both individually/directly, and the communal space.
Even if you consciously don't care about or respect anyone else, "everyone else is wrong for not being be ok with my t-shirt and flipflops" it's still simply a self-own to present this image of someone who lacks such a minimum level of perception.
A business communique like this isn't a performance art piece where it's fine if most people react badly to it because the whole point was to make people think about their reactions or reflect on some aspect of life. It's not the time or place to make a chocolate Jesus.
It's just some infants in pants they don't know how to fill, not "refreshing honesty".
I guess when people get banned, and only get cited a vague "violation of our terms of service", they should be grateful for how much professionalism and respect they're being shown? And actually being told what you are accused of is equivalent to wearing flip-flops to a wedding?
If you noticed Sam Altman's latest posts he moved to all lower case, including "I", which I see as due to the same reason