[kalimanzaro]

The oddest thing about all these anti-academic takes is that OpenAI insiders and even some informed outsiders like John Carmack think of OpenAI (and google before that) as an extension of academia. The paper posted here is more akin to lower tier academics griping about R1 universities getting most of the funding (and using amoral tactics to get that funding). Seriously. OpenAI is just another R1 department (outsized corporate funding, together with an excellent devops and focussed PR team, explains all its shenanigans)

[bo1024]

This is completely true from a personnel standpoint. But it's worth emphasizing the difference that they don't publish transparently their biggest findings, which makes them very different from e.g. Microsoft research.

[revelio]

But they are not academia. To pretend they are is disingenuous. Just because a group of people do research and write up their findings sometimes, does not make them academics.