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ex-cdn said:

Entilzha said:

The title of this article should be “Senator’s JUSTIFIED paranoia” fyi. 

+1. Just search for "EFF + Senator + Wyden" or read his Wikipedia page. 

I understand the author may be unaware of US politics, but the tone of the piece is exactly the opposite of what we need today to fight disinformation.

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Governments are slowing humanity down.

They are corrupt, and evil.

victordias2000 said:

I’m an Apple TV+ subscriber and I don’t think the problem is not having old content, but the lack of new shows for the current year

No Severance season 2, Shantaram was cancelled after its initial season. No movies interesting watching (apart from Tetris). I hope that the root cause of this was the scriptwriter strike, and things will improve in 2024 as there are several interesting announcements for January and Feb. 

mpantone said:

planetary paul said:

Obviously the intention was to kill off the company. Some serious litigation is in order methinks.

Whose intention?

Certainly not Altman's. He had a large equity stake in the company. It was his baby.

Certainly not the board of directors. They represent the shareholders.

Certainly not Microsoft. They have 49% ownership. Destroying OpenAI would mean flushing most of their investment stake down the toilet. (That's what Elon Musk is singlehandedly in the process of doing with X/Twitter.)

My hunch (unsubstantiated) is that the BOD identified irregularities that pointed to fraudulent behavior by Altman, akin to Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) and Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX). Liars don't commit just one lie. Lying permeates almost everything they do. Not just their business dealings, also their personal lives.

If the boards of Theranos and FTX had identified such issues early enough with Holmes and SBF, those companies might still exist today.

We won't learn what it is but some general information will probably come to light someday. Not today, not tomorrow, but the reasons won't stay hidden forever.

Remember that this is a privately held company that lost -$540 million on revenues of $28 million in 2022.

Silicon Valley is pretty small. My guess is that the biggest and best connected venture capitalists and IP law firms already have an idea of what went wrong.

The shareholders can revolt and elect a new BOD but Microsoft has 49% control. My guess is that some minority shareholder, probably some bigshot VC got suspicious from Altman's behavior, started poking around and found something rotten.

The people who would benefit from an OpenAI collapse are the competitors, companies like Alphabet, Meta, maybe Amazon, IBM, a bunch of startups, etc. Maybe a disgruntled former OpenAI employee, a jilted lover (we saw SBF's former girlfriend testify against him). But not someone with a sizable equity stake in OpenAI.

Silicon Valley has plenty of hubris and guys like Altman have an excess of it. Executives like Holmes and SBF have made people see red flags when people talk it up without showing real results (that is, profitability). My guess is that this will eventually end up with legal action against Altman and possibly other senior execs. The CFO would come under heavy scrutiny, there's always a money trail behind any sort of corporate shenanigans.

"Fake it until you make it" is not a real business strategy in the real world. That might be fine in a movie but it doesn't work in high tech especially when you're playing with someone else's money. The numbers eventually don't add up.

This is going to get more interesting.

CelticPaddy said:

palomine said:

What is Apple doing with AI these days?

They can’t even get Siri right, never mind AI