Comment by RivieraKid
5 months ago
What percentage of people who use their products care? 1%?
OpenAI is a brand, not a literal description of the company!
5 months ago
What percentage of people who use their products care? 1%?
OpenAI is a brand, not a literal description of the company!
> OpenAI is a brand, not a literal description of the company!
If the brand name is deeply contradictory to the business practices of the company, people will start making nasty puns and jokes, which can lead to serious reputation damages for the respective company.
99% of people don't care. Also, they are in some sense open, ChatGPT is openly available and they're capped-profit.
Far, far more than 1% of people care. Sure, they are open in one sense: for business. But in the tech world, "open" specifically means showing us how you got your final product. It means releasing source code rather than just binaries (even free binaries!), or sharing protocols and standards rather than keeping them proprietary (looking at you Apple and HDMI). It doesn't matter if anyone can use ChatGPT, that has nothing to do with being open.
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I think generally zero business damage in name. Only a vocal minority like to cry about it.
> Only a vocal minority like to cry about it.
A very vocal minority can often have quite some influence on the majority. See for example the Wikipedia article on "Minority influence":
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_influence
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Would you feel the same about a kill shelter called "save the kittens inc"?