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OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company (www.theverge.com)
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[–] arararagi@ani.social 41 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Shocking nobody

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 27 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well, apart from the people like me who thought they had always been one because they acted exactly like one.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 13 hours ago

I thought they had successfully converted around the time they got the infusion of funds from MS. I thought they were started as a not-for-profit, but were already shady-as-shit when they stopped publishing stuff under open licenses.