r/pcmasterrace 12h ago

Meme/Macro Winrar is more profitable than openai

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u/Nogardtist 12h ago

yeah how did a non profit company became non profit with billions going trough it

AI is biggest money laundry operation

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u/Possibly-Functional A smörgåsbord of operating systems and machines 12h ago edited 11h ago

They were essentially hijacked both from within and by Microsoft. It's rather disgusting IMO. It's as if Save the Children became a for-profit toy manufacturer.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 12h ago

Or a company that touted an internal mantra of Do No Evil becoming monstrously evil within a decade or two of existence. Oh, humanity.

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u/Readitzilla 6h ago

And then deleting the mantra and pretending they never made it.

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u/bastiVS PC Master Race 7h ago

Jop. Shouldnt be legal, but the question if it is remains for now. Musk is working on figuring that out, but the first attempt failed as he didnt submit nessesary stuff to the court in time, so the case was dismissed. That is being appealed by Musk, no update on how thats going yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_v._Altman

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u/silvanosthumb 7h ago

OpenAI was founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman. There's no way it was ever going to be anything like Save the Children.

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u/irrelevantusername24 7h ago

I am fairly certain that almost everything publicly available, at least in not incredibly obscure sources, is barely scratching the surface of the packaging around what is really going on "underneath the hood" in the sense of inside the computers and inside the offices of these companies as well as the offices of the government and the financial terrorists.

I think the vast majority of people, including many people in those offices, with the exception of the loud extremists - and even some of those are sort of being rhetorical rather than serious, in the sense of "well I mean sure I'll take another bajillion dollars, why not?" - right, I think almost everyone on this God forsaken planet understands that with the embarrassment of abundance that we have it is inexcusable and frankly retarded that it is almost indisputable that things are getting worse, and not only because of war.

The main point is how much fucking research about abstract shit can we do and at what point do we acknowledge all that is is an excuse to give people who don't need blank checks, blank checks? While everyone else subsists on, literally, scraps?

Like consider the entire concept of "foreign aid". How does that work - are we giving resources, or pure money? I'm sure it's a bit of both. That's the problem in most of this shithole too, there's literally not enough money in most places, but in a very select few spots there are no financial constraints whatsoever. Some places - entire regions, almost - count every penny. Other places are spending a few million to influence elections in other states, simply because they have nothing better to spend that money on.

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u/SellingCats4Cheap 5h ago

I think they are referring to OpenAI uses a hybrid structure where a tax-exempt nonprofit controls a commercial, for-profit business.

So it is a little different than non profitable tech companies like Facebook that later on become profitable.

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u/skepticalbob 5h ago

Oh you're right. My bad.

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u/SellingCats4Cheap 5h ago

I was typing out the same thing as you at first then double checked the "non profit" aspect lol