[redisman]

Gives me very low confidence that these people understand society at all. And they’re supposed to be the gatekeepers? According to… themselves I’m guessing?

Ah yes a pompous letter where we list all of our impressive formal accomplishments will surely get these rubes to take their hands off of our toys

[selfhoster11]

The only reason they are the gatekeepers, is because they are the ones with all the GPUs. OpenAI seems to be counting on that as their moat vs all the plebs who want to use GPT-3 for "unapproved" purposes, at least.

[w4ffl35]

I think they will try to ban us from the technology, or force us to be registered to use it on their system under supervision. my guess is that the future will involve thumb-printing these models in some way to determine where they came from and who developed them.

[selfhoster11]

Good luck. This will take the ban on unlicensed general-purpose computation - which incidentally, has more and more pieces dropping into place thanks to the wonders of DRM.

[paskozdilar]

Good thing we have FSF and EFF on our side. Not to mention RMS.

[aaaaaaaaaaab]

RMS? They simply canceled the guy a few years ago…

[selfhoster11]

IMO, for far more legitimate reasons than many attempted cancellations I've seen in the past. The guy was the driver behind many initiatives, but on a personal level I'd no longer want to meet him.

[paskozdilar]

RMS is back in FSF, and as far as I know, nothing has changed.

The "cancellation" attempt was a good try, though. Really made me worried.

[w4ffl35]

true, these people circumvent law, not play by it. But clearly they do their best to wall us off and push us towards the registered paid model that I mentioned.