<story><title>OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models</title><url>https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/openais-policies-hinder-reproducible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway1851</author><text>A concern I have about OpenAI is that, if you&amp;#x27;re using their APIs to develop an application, they can mine your data to compete with you, or even beat you to market. They can do this indirectly, by sharing information with preferred business partners. The conflict of interest, combined with the lack of robust data privacy guarantees, makes me queasy.&lt;p&gt;If serving up generic LLM APIs becomes commoditized -- and I think it will -- they will want to monetize in other ways.</text></item><item><author>atleastoptimal</author><text>I understand any individual&amp;#x27;s company anti-competitive measures. OpenAI looks at Google the same way Apple looked at IBM in the 80s.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;m worried about is a lot of the talk about guarding models, public safety and misuse of models will end up leading every big company to pull public access of their APIs. We might look at 2022-2023 as a brief golden age when regular people could use stuff like GPT-4 before it was firewalled and available only to large corporations and those with personal relations to big tech execs.&lt;p&gt;Extrapolating from OpenAI&amp;#x27;s change of philosophy and business practices from their early days to now, it seems to be the way things are going. I only hope it doesn&amp;#x27;t go the way of that one paper which wanted to ban GPUs for sale to the public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>illiarian</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d say: find a niche. Milk it for all it&amp;#x27;s worth. Be ready for access to be removed at any moment.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models</title><url>https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/openais-policies-hinder-reproducible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway1851</author><text>A concern I have about OpenAI is that, if you&amp;#x27;re using their APIs to develop an application, they can mine your data to compete with you, or even beat you to market. They can do this indirectly, by sharing information with preferred business partners. The conflict of interest, combined with the lack of robust data privacy guarantees, makes me queasy.&lt;p&gt;If serving up generic LLM APIs becomes commoditized -- and I think it will -- they will want to monetize in other ways.</text></item><item><author>atleastoptimal</author><text>I understand any individual&amp;#x27;s company anti-competitive measures. OpenAI looks at Google the same way Apple looked at IBM in the 80s.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;m worried about is a lot of the talk about guarding models, public safety and misuse of models will end up leading every big company to pull public access of their APIs. We might look at 2022-2023 as a brief golden age when regular people could use stuff like GPT-4 before it was firewalled and available only to large corporations and those with personal relations to big tech execs.&lt;p&gt;Extrapolating from OpenAI&amp;#x27;s change of philosophy and business practices from their early days to now, it seems to be the way things are going. I only hope it doesn&amp;#x27;t go the way of that one paper which wanted to ban GPUs for sale to the public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>precompute</author><text>This is the allure of AI, and this is also why OpenAI chose Micro$oft, the flame extinguisher par excellence.  They have struck gold, they can now monopolize the very act of writing software, nevermind if it was based on a bait-and-switch and trained on code that wasn&amp;#x27;t legally open for usage in this manner.  Pretty soon, this will lead to microsoft using their black box defense to make copycats of every service possible for their own windows platform, and then put it all around a paywall.</text></comment>