[ttobbaybbob]

from the openai charter (https://openai.com/charter/): "Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity."

i wonder how committed they currently are to ^ and what taking external investment would/will do to that commitment. Echoes of "dont be evil"

[karmakurtisaani]

This is something you always say as start-up. It gets you good pr and possibly cheaper and idealistic engineers. Then you struggle towards your "mission" until you can sell out when the numbers get big enough. No one will not sell out when there are billions on the table.

[hatenberg]

Don’t do evil, we know that one