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by nell 525 days ago
Why is Sam Altman singled out in these copyright issues? Aren't there plenty of competing models?
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I don't believe you're asking this in good faith because the answer is so obvious. But just in case, it's because OpenAI is by a ridiculously large margin the most well known player in the space and unlike the leaders of other organisations his name is known and he has a personal brand which he puts a lot of effort into promoting.
Why is it obvious. Google is a much more powerful profitable entity that has equally good models. Facebook uses data from Libgen. Both are highly profitable companies who could pay for resources but don't.

Anthropic, the ethical fork of OpenAI doesn't do anything much different nowadays.

OpenAI may have had a head start, but the competition is not far behind.

https://x.com/backus/status/1878484938003034391

OpenAI is the highest profile.
They were. The margin is not that much anymore; Claude Sonnet is the go-to model for devs nowadays.

The best video model is Google's.

because he's a manipulative POS.
The two are seen on the picture together! So more similar they could not be. That highlights the irony and hypocrite of capitalism, of better say of human society.
It's possible that both of them are more similar in thought than anti-AI people think, which is why they hung out together.