Comment by dist-epoch
2 years ago
If the last three days didn't happen and Microsoft announced today that they are buying OpenAI there would have been massive uproar in the tech community against that, like when they bought GitHub.
But now they are seen as saviors of humanity against the evil people who don't want to commercialize AI for maximum profit.
Absolutely brilliant!
Going to be honest, I still hate them and all I feel is sadness that it feels like the employees of OpenAI are going to end up building microsoft products... I didn't love a lot about OpenAI but honestly I'd rather ChatGPT shut down than become a microsoft product. Though obviously it's naive to wish for that since that's obviously not how it'd go.
End-run around the anti-trust laws.