Comment by buu700
17 hours ago
Sure, but that doesn't really have anything to do with what I said. The CEO of an AI company may or may not believe in the social benefits of censorship, and the reasoning for their beliefs could be any number of things, but at the end of the day "the corporation" is still motivated by profit.
Executives are beholden to laws, regulations, and shareholder interests. They may also have teams of advisors and board members convincing them of the wisdom of decisions they wouldn't have arrived at on their own. They may not even have a strong opinion on a particular decision, but assent to one direction as a result of internal politics or shareholder/board pressure. Not everything is a clear-cut decision with one "moral" option and one "immoral" option.
> but at the end of the day "the corporation" is still motivated by profit.
OpenAI and Anthropic are both PBCs. So neither of them are supposedly purely motivated by this thing.
That adds some nuance, but doesn't dramatically change the incentive structure. A PBC is still for-profit: https://www.cooleygo.com/glossary/public-benefit-corporation.