OpenAI started as a non-profit, funded by tax-deductible donations to make AI benefit everyone. Now, they’re shifting to for-profit, putting profits over public safety. Tell OpenAI’s board and Attorneys General this isn’t OK by signing the petition ⤵️ - ThreadSky

markruffalo.bsky.social • 9 days ago

OpenAI started as a non-profit, funded by tax-deductible donations to make AI benefit everyone. Now, they’re shifting to for-profit, putting profits over public safety.

Tell OpenAI’s board and Attorneys General this isn’t OK by signing the petition ⤵️

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davekornfield.bsky.social•9 days ago

Mark, they were never a non profit in anything but name.

hellaratty.bsky.social•9 days ago

They are part of the techno oligarchs. The ONLY thing these people really care about is money. They don’t care about humanity, life on earth, climate, nothing. ONLY money and cruelty.

grygaard.bsky.social•9 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/dgoldman.bsky.social/post/3lky4g5nchk2o

dgoldman.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is why we need DAOs. They're much harder to coopt and their focus better matches that is the stakeholders in general.

grygaard.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm glad people not social democrat also can see UBI as a solution to many problems incl. AI automation speeding up.
Also; debt bad-austerity nessesary, builds on faulty research. Introduce UBI like UK did new social security reform; choose it individually. No. art. https://superrealisten.blogspot.com/?m=1

justkylie247.bsky.social•3 days ago

Signing the petition is a great way to let OpenAI and the attorneys general know that these changes are not acceptable

justkylie247.bsky.social•3 days ago

The decision to move from a non-profit to for-profit can raise concerns about prioritizing profit over public safety. It’s important to hold companies accountable and ensure that their actions align with the common good..

suhails.bsky.social•9 days ago

Why aren’t all natural monopolies non-profits? Sure, I am willing to argue the point but they will agree that rent seeking is anti capitalist.

jayflogal.bsky.social•8 days ago

Everyone who gave a “donation” should own it then

m4a1960.bsky.social•9 days ago

Even using it in Healthcare ,Dangerous !

gilliesracer.bsky.social•7 days ago

Gosh, they're shifting to for-profit? How surprising!

inkyquillwarts.bsky.social•9 days ago

Where are all the good tech bros and the billionaires??? Asking for the 1% who are trapped in their monopolies and are slowly being ruled by all of them.

eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social•9 days ago

Can a nonprofit simply transfer their assets to a for-profit?

liberalxi.bsky.social•9 days ago

Profits shouldn't come at the expense of ethical AI development and public good. Signed! What other actions can we take to hold them accountable?

mayhemjames.bsky.social•9 days ago

Don't forget: They're trying to get copywrite protections everywhere stripped away so they can steal from creators like writers and artists to train their AI.

bubblesthebard.bsky.social•9 days ago

No, outlaw all AI trash right now

mldp-06.bsky.social•9 days ago

This was the plan all along. Exploiting the tax code.

magnusxander.bsky.social•9 days ago

This whole AI thing is a scam. It’s nothing more than funneling investor money into the pockets of tech companies that continue to overpromise AI’s capabilities. They lose billions of dollars while wasting our resources.

mulvihill.bsky.social•9 days ago

They are attempting to cash-in on their white elephant before it shuts nothing but disappointment.

Big bubble about to blow-up and make a massive mess.

adamkobiela.bsky.social•9 days ago

Didn't they spend $5B to lose $9B last year? I don't want to pay for that. AI is a bust. Time to give it the Ol' Yeller

classicjanvier.bsky.social•9 days ago

Or we could just stop using AI? might be an option

jeanie31199.bsky.social•8 days ago

You surely aren’t surprised? They’ve made it essentially illegal to be homeless, but are trying to ensure that you can’t feed kids they want to force women to birth, but won’t be able to feed, clothe, or educate. Cutting VA, Medicaid, job & food safety, dismantling everything.

chaostosurreal.bsky.social•9 days ago

Nice work in Mickey 17 BTW...

zeemev.bsky.social•9 days ago

You must think people are the biggest rubes gtfo with this bullshit

sabitk.bsky.social•9 days ago

I quit my OpenSource journey after this specific event, I simply felt cheated.

steveknapp.bsky.social•9 days ago

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.
Ralph Nader

theweaseltimeline.bsky.social•9 days ago

How predictably American. And now with no government watchdogs it’s about to get weird folks. Real real weird.

hsawaknow.bsky.social•9 days ago

Or just use DeepSeek because it’s 100 times better

jeffhyde2284.bsky.social•9 days ago

Open AI takes away jobs from Voice Actors, Animators, Writers & Creators of shows proves why we hate OpenAI and yet Musk is boosting them in every way so more people are out of work and have to live the life of what America was back in the 1600s to mid 1800s, disgusting.

sunshineincal.bsky.social•8 days ago

Sure get those tax deductible donations in before becoming for profit. Sounds like welfare to me. Just like tesla getting govt funding and now musk is buying elections

caseyadamsstark.bsky.social•9 days ago

Not surprised. The problem is that I’m not willing to support OpenAI in any capacity whatsoever.

matgopack.bsky.social•9 days ago

The upside of this is that if they're forced to stay nonprofit, they'll get massive amount of debt and might go under.

caseyadamsstark.bsky.social•9 days ago

Good to consider

saridder.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's totally ok, why is it your or anyone's business if they flip to a for-profit?

trouble-t.bsky.social•9 days ago

So xAI can take the lead? I like Anthropic but we need every opportunity to keep Elon away from the pole position in AI. Stop one and another emerges. And Elon’s has the benefit of training his LLM with data no one else can access.

robschamberger.bsky.social•9 days ago

Their ‘nonprofit mission’ to steal from the arts? They can kick rocks.

wtfdor.bsky.social•9 days ago

cathirk.bsky.social•9 days ago

You’re done Jew hating?

velvethydrangea.bsky.social•9 days ago

OpenAI steals from people. He has said if it can't use copyrighted materials *for free,* OpenAI can't exist. So I vote we let it die.

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antiquequaalude.bsky.social•9 days ago

Fell for it again award for America

faith13.bsky.social•9 days ago

✊🏼✅

the-dancing-vorlon.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yeah, OpenAI implies open source, but it's not. OpenAI is a fraud and it has been from the beginning. If it's not open source it's not going to be used morally and it will fail. It's just a matter of time.

artistichope.bsky.social•8 days ago

FYI. Anything 100% created by AI isn't copyright able. It has no copyright protection. The actual software falls under patents. But they can't make AI copyrightable without destroying copyrights all together. There has to be a life affiliated with copyright to limit license.

joebazz.bsky.social•8 days ago

They need to compensate everyone who has contributed if they plan to privatize for profit all of our hard work

ryancrashburn.bsky.social•9 days ago

the company is run by a psychopath... it just needs to be stopped

marksquared.bsky.social•8 days ago

Well, even Elmo wants OpenAI to remain a non-profit. Should we be helping him out?

faithhealer.bsky.social•9 days ago

Fuck AI

pcalau12i.bsky.social•8 days ago

anarchists not beating the primitivist allegations

ellyraying.bsky.social•9 days ago

I appreciate how AI can be used to damage the creative. I find it incredibly useful. I home educate (homeschool) and it's great for lesson planning and creating differentiated learning opportunities for my different aged/ability kids. It massively increases the effectiveness of targeted learning.

cocolicius.bsky.social•9 days ago

Not the only company creating AI. Not even the most advanced AI house. Cat is out of bag for non-governmental regulation.

ctempleart.bsky.social•9 days ago

@markruffalo.bsky.social -AI has stolen countless artwork from many hardworking artists and illustrators in its development. And now, replaces us in future jobs. As a fellow creative, you should realize how problematic that is.

friesandersen.bsky.social•8 days ago

AI is the biggest scam in IT history. It is a pyramid scheme to sell GPUs and scam moron billionaires out of money.

andrewrockwell.bsky.social•9 days ago

What? Socialized loss and privatized profits? Who could have foreseen this???

kaitojd.bsky.social•9 days ago

I am using more and more Gemini ...

inkyquillwarts.bsky.social•9 days ago

Google isn’t any better, if anything, they are worse.

kaitojd.bsky.social•9 days ago

At this stage we are choosing between Plague and Cholera

inkyquillwarts.bsky.social•9 days ago

Basically. I’m opting out of all ai at the minute though lol. They are all fckd and the amount of energy and water they use just to answer a simple question is bonkers!

d-marquis.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm with Inky. It's a completely unnecessary "convenience ", you literally don't need it

kaitojd.bsky.social•9 days ago

Help me rewriting emails mainly tbh

dlopesart.bsky.social•9 days ago

I see the intent here but the language in the petition is so icky. None of us like AI. They need to be held accountable to their tax agreements AND not steal/scrape data from the masses to write their algorithms :)

pam327.bsky.social•9 days ago

Don’t you imagine this was the plan all along? Like Elon coming to the rescue in Western North Carolina with “free” Starlink, only to start charging people $120/month a few months later? I could be wrong, but in business I believe this is called a “loss leader” or something like that.

harnish.bsky.social•9 days ago

Business cunts are gonna business cunt.

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