[Centigonal]

I agree with your main point, but I want to clarify that OpenAI never promised open source. This is a pernicious misunderstanding that OpenAI has been all too happy to leave uncorrected. Open source was never part of the mission, and I can't find any place where OpenAI leadership has implied that it is or will be.

From 2016:

> They’d raised a billion dollars and hired an impressive team of thirty researchers—but what for? “There are twenty to thirty people in the field, including Nick Bostrom and the Wikipedia article,” Amodei said, “who are saying that the goal of OpenAI is to build a friendly A.I. and then release its source code into the world.”

> “We don’t plan to release all of our source code,” Altman said. “But let’s please not try to correct that. That usually only makes it worse.”

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

[Wolfbeta]

> I can't find any place where OpenAI leadership has implied that it is or will be.

have you tried saying the name out loud?

[Centigonal]

The name is very misleading!

Was that a deliberate misdirection? Not sure. Apparently, Elon Musk takes credit for the name and wanted the company's products to be open source. However, Musk has said a lot of things about companies he is involved with that later turn out to be untrue.

[persolb]

Is three times a pattern yet? I love my FSD, and I though Autopilot was great (I got both when they were much cheaper)... but neither name matches the functionality.

[sublinear]

> Musk has said a lot of things about companies he is involved with that later turn out to be untrue.

Funny how putting forth lots of contrarian red tape after and because someone has made all the claims and promises has a way of doing that.

[7e]

Sam Altman seems like a snake from that quote.