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The truth Elon left out

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by threecheese

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Is it normal for one party to intentionally misrepresent facts in this way, on the record? Maybe the source material (that TFA compares) was unavailable when the statements were made, and were then produced as part of discovery (revealing the misrepresentation)?
Reminds me of a toddler with candy all over their face denying eating it.
(Not trying to say E is a toddler)

by sebmellen

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I’m really not sure why they are blogging like this instead of fighting this in court. This article just blows the thing up further and makes the context of the dispute even less clear. To think that a company valued at $600B (on paper) is responding like this is wild to me.

by iamrobertismo

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I can't be the only one tired of the consistent relitigation of OpenAI corporate structure and funding, because like a lot of things with AI, generally it doesn't matter who you think is legally correct. We are in an environment in which non of this is actually being scrutinized under it's legal merit, but rather, personal and geopolitical.
But, generally I assume the idea is about building a case for when the dust settles, rather than looking for something to happen now.

by aek48

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If you're a $100B+ entity, you let your lawyers do the talking in filings. By hosting this on their own blog, OpenAI is essentially admitting that they care more about the 'court of public opinion' than the actual court case. It feels less like a tech giant and more like a messy startup feud that hasn't grown up yet

by golly_ned

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As someone who isn't invested in this spat, this just looks petty for openai to put this on their website.
Just write a press release and let the tech press publish it. Don't host it yourself. The legalistic language belongs in a filing, not a user-facing blog.

by JumpinJack_Cash

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Bunch of a-holes all of them.
But the OpenAI team built something that is used daily by 1B people and didn't exist before, whereas Musk history is one of providing marginal improvements to industries which are either well established (automobile 200 year old industry) or redundant (space and satellites)
AI killed the green trade which propped Musk 2011-2022, and I must say it is superior considering that it gives people hope of an improvement of their quality of life not just keeping the same without pollution.
Of course Musk kept accumulating billions after 2022 but that's a lagging indicator , he's seen as someone who lost the touch in SV
Honestly I don't think he ever had it, green revolution was always something rather depressing , it was the narrative but underneath it was still the long tail of Internet + smartphone social media + cryptocurrencies (all stuff that Musk missed) to provide hope and enthusiasm for a better future...until ChatGPT AI came around of course

by bigyabai

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Can you imagine if Apple did press releases like this? OpenAI won't last the decade.