OpenAI's exploration into creating a social network seems contradictory to its original mission as a nonprofit aimed at benefiting humanity. Social media's current landscape, described as unremarkable and toxic, could distract from OpenAI's goal of developing advanced superintelligence. Insights from technology expert Charlie Warzel highlight the motivations behind this move, suggesting a tension between the company's commercial ambitions and its foundational goals of ethical AI advancement.
But, well, it doesn't really make sense, does it? Twenty-one years after the creation of Facebook, social media has become the pond scum of the internet: everywhere, unremarkable, and a little bit gross.
OpenAI, which says it's trying to build an advanced superintelligence known as AGI, used to be a mission-oriented nonprofit that explicitly worked to "benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."
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