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Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity.

In a letter sent to Bonta’s office this week, Meta says that OpenAI “should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and reappropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains.”

The letter, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal and you can read in full below, goes so far as to say that Meta believes Elon Musk is “qualified and well positioned to represent the interests of Californians in this matter.” Meta supporting Musk’s fight against OpenAI is notable given that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were talking about literally fighting in a cage match just last year.

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[–] GreenKnight23 71 points 5 days ago (12 children)

don't just block them. force all AI companies that use online content for research to move to a nonprofit and require them to provide their source code openly.

tax payer dollars paid to create that content so that means that AI is tax payer bought.

don't like it? train your models on a closed network that's behind a paywall.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Dont limit this to AI companies. All social media companies should be forced to become nonprofits and their code AGPL'd

[–] Loduz_247 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

But the AGPL does not prevent you from doing commercial activities

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Being nonprofit also doesn't prevent you from doing commercial activities.

But i think the idea would be if they are forced to be nonprofit and their code open-sourced then there is now transparency in how their LLMs are trained and operate.

But it's a bit silly to try to make AI companies nonprofits to begin with since they could just go to another country with "better" laws if they are punished too heavily in one country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

People gotta eat. There's nothing wrong with selling open source software

The most important part is that the people and the government can see how the suggestion and feed algorithms are written, so they they can make them change them if they're found to lead to increased harm, such as suicides.

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