Cash incinerator OpenAI secures its $6.6 billion lifeline — ‘in the spirit of a donation’
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In the largest venture-capital-backed investment round of all time, OpenAI has successfully raised $6.6 billion from its most gullible brilliant and handsome friends. This gives OpenAI an imaginary…
  • @[email protected]English
    8•2 months ago

    6,6 billion? Joseph Weizenbaum realizes he made a big mistake in his reaction to ELIZA. Could have been rich and infamous, instead of just famous.

  • @JeeBaiChowEnglish
    6•2 months ago

    Don’t forget they also ask their donors not to hedge invest in other ai startups…

    • @[email protected]English
      10•2 months ago

      yeah, which is rather lol

      “please believe in meeeeeeeeeee”

      afaik it’s not illegal but I have a strong feeling that quite a number of Typical OpenAI Practices And Behaviours are going to inform what becomes anathema and what becomes illegal in the coming years, because ho boy

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 month ago

        Typical OpenAI Practices And Behaviours are going to inform what becomes anathema

        Thou shalt not make a grift machine in the likeness of OpenAI