Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit
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“OpenAI wants to change its status while retaining all of the benefits that enabled it to reach the point it has today,” Meta argues.

Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity.

In a letter sent to Bonta’s office this week, Meta says that OpenAI “should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and reappropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains.”

The letter, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal and you can read in full below, goes so far as to say that Meta believes Elon Musk is “qualified and well positioned to represent the interests of Californians in this matter.” Meta supporting Musk’s fight against OpenAI is notable given that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were talking about literally fighting in a cage match just last year.

  • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
    320·
    2 months ago

    That’s beyond stupid.

    If you don’t want bots scraping your content, then don’t put it up on the public internet.

    • Sarah@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Do artists not deserve the right to decide who profits from their art, even if it’s posted to the internet? Would it be ethical for me to sell posters of artwork I did not create without the artists permission?

      • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
        25·
        2 months ago

        Do artists not deserve the right to decide who profits from their art, even if it’s posted to the internet?

        No, I don’t think they deserve that “right.”

        Would it be ethical for me to sell posters of artwork I did not create without the artists permission?

        Ethics vary from person to person and change with the times. I think it would be ethical because I do not support the ownership of ideas.

        • Sarah@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11·
          1 month ago

          I understand and support being for the abolition of copyright, but I don’t think it’s possible under capitalism. Artists need to eat, and food costs money under our current system.

          The ownership of ideas and the ownership of a specific piece of art are different concepts, too. If artists could patent style, we’d all be breaking the law.

    • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
      52·
      2 months ago

      This is one of the funnier things I see frequently on here. People both champion free and open source code and data that can be used for anything… until it is used for anything they even mildly dislike.