And, I'd like to add, fuck Musk.

But maybe they can fuck each other a bit?

Yeah I mean zuck and musk don’t want it because it removes an extra hoop that OpenAI has to jump through to compete, but all said and done fuck all three of them for taking another leap in human achievement and making it a “profit for investors at any cost.” And fuck OpenAI especially for pretending that wasn’t the case all along

And they make a valid point. Imagine if all startups started as non profit, raised their assets with tax reduction, and then decided to go for profit when it suited them? That’s tax evasion.

Meta sucks, but here they are very ~~right~~ hypocritical*

Don't worry fam I got you

Meta is just trying to protect their intellectual property, meaning everything anyone has created on any of their platforms.

Yep, they own all of it, including every single comment anyone has written on Whatsapp.

Ironic they are demanding government regulation / interdiction.

Dont limit this to AI companies. All social media companies should be forced to become nonprofits and their code AGPL'd

You won't miss it, you think you will but you honestly won't.

Getting rid of Facebook was easily one of the best things I've done. The people that are important will find other ways to reach out.

Pull the plug, you won’t look back.

Start a text group chat.

I have only used groups to ask questions. Do people still do that, go browse the Facebook feed? I thought that's a grandma thing

Hey, you left reddit, didn't you? Do you miss that?

I've remembered Babylon 5 season 4 today. Specifically the part where the "good" Vorlons and the "bad" Shadows started erasing the shit out of worlds inhabited by lesser races who made the wrong choice of having traces of the opposing side.

Point being, you are being sarcastic about Republicans and rightfully so, but Clinton administration is the one that introduced mass surveillance in the USA, and now in Syria CNN praises HTS (Sunni jihadis) and Fox News highlight SDF (secular socialists). Though from what I've read, apparently they really honestly talk to each other, which is a surprising kind of coexistence, HTS leader's words I took with scepticism, but SDF leaders too say they have no problem with HTS. HTS is a mix of ex-al-Qaeda and ex-ISIS, that's how strange this is.

OK, politics again.

On the subject - I think turning a non-profit into for-profit while not letting go of datasets and such, legally allowed to be assembled in the context of it being non-profit, is kinda theft. So Facebook is right here. Circumstantially of course.

It's a bit more complicated than that.

I think there's a for-profit part of the business and a non-profit part.

for profit would imply they can grow even faster due to having funds to expand its service. You would be against it if you plan on having your own competing AI service(which meta clearly does)

It seems like besides Linux itself, most successful open source projects go for profit. When users don't like the changes, they fork and keep going.

Like MySQL going for profit with a sell out to Oracle and MariaDB becoming the most popular fork of MySQL.