<story><title>The OpenAI board was right</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>It really is incredible how something as small and simple as this gives such incredible bad vibes. This is like early 2010s facebook vibes. It&amp;#x27;s just... if they&amp;#x27;re going to steal her voice, what would they do to yours?&lt;p&gt;But it also points to a wider problem in OpenAI&amp;#x27;s existence. They&amp;#x27;re built on theft. If you wrote something on the internet in the last 20 years, they&amp;#x27;ve stolen it. They&amp;#x27;ve stolen it, they&amp;#x27;re put it into their little magic box and now they want to sell it back to you. OpenAI is amazing technology, and once the equity of the company is redistributed back to the content owners who actually provided the value, it&amp;#x27;ll be great to see what they can do from there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;it also points to a wider problem&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look at the comments, even in this thread, defending Sam. I thought this could be dealt with by the courts. But it clearly needs stronger medicine; there is simply too much hubris. Congress may need to act; let’s start with states’ AGs. (Narrow clarifications on copyright and likeness rights, to start. Prosecution from there. The low-hanging fruit is anyone in Illinois who was enrolled in WorldCoin.)&lt;p&gt;We, as a community, have been critical of crypto. AI is different—Altman is not. He is a proven liar, and this episode demonstrates the culture he has created at a multibillion-dollar firm that seems destined, in the long run, for—at best—novel conservatorship.&lt;p&gt;We have a wider problem. It isn’t “alignment.” It’s 19th-century fast-talking fraudsters clothing themselves in the turtlenecks of dead founders.</text></comment>
<story><title>The OpenAI board was right</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>It really is incredible how something as small and simple as this gives such incredible bad vibes. This is like early 2010s facebook vibes. It&amp;#x27;s just... if they&amp;#x27;re going to steal her voice, what would they do to yours?&lt;p&gt;But it also points to a wider problem in OpenAI&amp;#x27;s existence. They&amp;#x27;re built on theft. If you wrote something on the internet in the last 20 years, they&amp;#x27;ve stolen it. They&amp;#x27;ve stolen it, they&amp;#x27;re put it into their little magic box and now they want to sell it back to you. OpenAI is amazing technology, and once the equity of the company is redistributed back to the content owners who actually provided the value, it&amp;#x27;ll be great to see what they can do from there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiwenc</author><text>Exactly. And the name “Open” in OpenAI implies it is open. Open to the world. Open to humanity. Nothing of that came to be. It should have remained non-profit; be good for humanity (yes i know this is up for interpretation).</text></comment>