Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by epestr 28 days ago
It's good to agree that some don't have a conscience, and maintaining an appearance matters more. And appearances change based on what's legal or not.

They could detect the other AI labs and also silently burn the tokens at a faster rate providing fewer tokens for money, which does sound illegal to me.

The comments only further prove that without more regulation around this, big AI wouldn't have a "don't be evil" attitude going forward.

1 comments

Anyone who called for regulations/guardrails of any kind were shouted down as Luddites who hate progress. We all knew this was going to be a mess but $$$ so screw it right?
Maybe that's how OpenAI was able to blow $5.73 BILLION dollars on "marketing" i.e. paying politicians and influencers.