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Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen. (gizmodo.com)
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[–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think a potential OpenAI "bailout" should go something like this:

  • The investors get their money back.
  • They have to sign a pact that they must not invest into AI anymore for a given amount of years (20+ minimum).
  • Massive regulatory overhaul to make sure stuff like this never happen. Also undo Ford v. Dodge Brothers.
  • Scam Altman and the others go to life in prison.
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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    ... why should the investors get their money back? They invested ludicrous amounts of money into a technology with obvious limitations from the start with the intention of using that technology to replace many people's jobs. Losing that money will be a better lesson than some probably unenforceable "pact".

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    They have to sign a pact that they must not invest into AI anymore for a given amount of years (20+ minimum).

    Problem is this might hurt actual AI research to punish a scam that has absolutely nothing to do with AI other than having coopted the name for marketing purposes.

    (Any investment in actual AI research is doomed for decades anyway when this bubble pops, but this would cause even more harm than the bubble has already caused.)

    (Also any form of research is probably ruined for decades anyway due to LLM-induced brain rot and having to sift through all the slop to try to recover any remaining fragments of actually useable knowledge, but, again, let's not make it even worse than it already is).

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