| ▲ | efnx 3 hours ago |
| Is it normal for a company this big to make a public blog post like this with almost no introduction to what they’re on about? I would expect them to start out with something like Apple is suing us for yada yada yada, but instead it reads like the diary of a hurt teenager. |
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| ▲ | chneu 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This reads like a mypillow CEO type post. Its insane this is coming from a company with as much scope as openai. Scope may not be the right word. |
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| ▲ | kunai 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This should tell you how unserious these "companies" are when they consider themselves the grand harbinger of the one and true "AGI" because their frontier models were able to solve (with great assistance) some sort of conjecture that was never taken seriously in the mathematical world but somehow is significant now because ??? | |
| ▲ | jeron 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | they assume if someone wants context, they'll just ask chatGPT for it | |
| ▲ | cubefox 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I find it refreshing that they are skipping the typical hedged corporate speak. | | |
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| ▲ | gr_norm 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > it reads like the diary of a hurt teenager. Yep, down to the pages of iMessage screenshots |
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| ▲ | jbverschoor 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | They aren't screenshots | | |
| ▲ | tuoret 42 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Which, somehow, confused me even further. I get that it's a stylistic choice to make them easy to read or whatever, but my first thought was "wait, they just posted screenshots with the names censored like a bad Reddit post?" |
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| ▲ | InsideOutSanta 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is pretty wild. Without context, it's barely coherent, but I guess they didn't want to say "Apple is suing us for X, Y, Z" because that makes them look bad. But there's just no upside to publishing this: If you don't know what's going on, this blog post is nonsensical and makes OpenAI look weird. If you do know what's going on, you'll immediately notice they don't address 80% of the stuff Apple is accusing them of, which makes OpenAI look dishonest. It just seems incredibly unprofessional and ill-considered. |
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| ▲ | yreg 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ironically (?) I am immediately reminded of Steve Jobs by reading the first paragraph. Specifically Thoughts on Flash, but there were probably more such press releases. [0] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/steve-job... |
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| ▲ | csomar 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes, the CEO is Sam Altman. |
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| ▲ | Melatonic 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Probably asked Siri to write it |
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| ▲ | dgellow 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nop, that’s extremely weird |
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| ▲ | epolanski an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| We're not the target of the blog post. |
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| ▲ | kubb 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They spend a lot of the investors’ money on that. All the videos they put out are extremely high quality. They literally have communication experts sitting there, breaking their heads over how to influence the public opinion in the company’s favor. I guess they learned it from Elon: if people like you, they’ll just hold your stock forever, even if you don’t make much money. |
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| ▲ | codemog 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Full self driving teslas on the moon any day now. AI data centers in space! We’re all going to be rich! What a whacked out timeline where this is the richest man. | |
| ▲ | onion2k 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Every company does that. It's literally a whole industry: Public Relations | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Formerly known as the propaganda department. I'm not kidding, that is what these departments used to be called. | |
| ▲ | dgellow 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It’s supposed to be subtle. Or at least, more subtle than whatever that is | |
| ▲ | kubb 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not to that extent though. For OpenAI the PR investment is disproportionate. Regular companies have people that talk to the media or maybe run some ads. OpenAI is trying to have in-house media. For a frontier lab it’s striking just how much energy (and dough) goes into this. You’re right of course that PR exists elsewhere, but that obviously true assertion misses the finer details of how PR works at OpenAI. In doing so it functions as a thought-terminating cliché. |
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| ▲ | lostlogin 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I guess they learned it from Elon: if people like you, they’ll just hold your stock forever, even if you don’t make much money. Is that the Elon lesson? I see him behave terribly and suffer little consequence. Much like his political buddies. | | |
| ▲ | dgellow 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, I think it’s backward, people like Elon because they know hi will boost their stock. Not the other way around | |
| ▲ | reverius42 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Maybe it should be "if the right people like you" |
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| ▲ | breppp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I see it as the Anti-AI aesthetic. When you write using this style it is obvious this isn't LLM generated and you signal this is well thought out. If you noticed Sam Altman's latest posts he moved to all lower case, including "I", which I see as due to the same reason |
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| ▲ | kajman 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The content does not read like it's well thought out to me, but I am at least convinced it's human. | | |
| ▲ | FinnKuhn an hour ago | parent [-] | | AI would have probably told you that posting this is not a good idea. |
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| ▲ | like_any_other 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It reads direct and unrehearsed, instead of like something where all humanity has been sanded off by legal and PR departments. |
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| ▲ | anon373839 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Direct and unrehearsed doesn't seem like the right tack for a high-stakes legal dispute between two (allegedly) trillion-dollar companies. Especially since they've not been able to make a coherent point here. | | |
| ▲ | like_any_other an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yes, we've built a society where being two-faced and false is rewarded. The least we can do is temper our criticism when someone "fails" to adhere to that. | | |
| ▲ | Brian_K_White 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | We've built a society where we shit in private, not in the middle of the street. | | |
| ▲ | like_any_other 23 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You got your crude remark backwards - it is the calculated, tactical PR-speak that is more like shitting up the public square, than the naive, honest-if-self-serving speech. |
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| ▲ | actionfromafar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | :-D Yet, it's signed "OpenAI". |
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