“ Or maybe it was a loose ethical environment in general”
Altman doesn’t appear to be a beacon of corporate ethics.
There has to be a reason why almost every single important partnership OpenAI had, abruptly ended, except for maybe Nvidia.
Just recently Satya Nadella publicly implied that OpenAI should not be trusted.
They are slowly becoming the STD of the AI industry, it’s like they think they are too big and awesome to need friends.
Maybe pissing Apple off will teach them a lesson?
"Altman doesn’t appear to be a beacon of corporate ethics."
Do those exist? I'm usually happy to see a mild candle flicker in the ethics window.
When Intel was on top of the world I was fortunate enough to work at one of the partner companies on a project that was a pet project of Andy Grove. I would nominate him and his whole C suite as a beacon of ethics and fair dealing.
When Intel was on top of the world they tried every trick to destroy the competition so that definitely didn't stemmed from the top...
Andry Grove was great, but Intel really was the epitome of "competition is for losers"
In the early days all their products were explicitly designed to only work with each other to create a hardware walled garden.
I would say Patagonia would be considered such a flicker.
They exist but their defining characteristic seems to be that they are not well-known and generally much less wealthy than celebrity CEOs.
Similar to the music world, the better you are, usually the more obscure you are as well. (e.g., Allan Holdsworth is a name known to most pros but the average Jack or Jill have no idea who he is or why he's considered important.)
Every Wall Street bank is run by guys who get that there are rules to this game and you don't squeeze the unsophisticated the same way. The same can't be said for Silicon Valleys contribution to the brokerage world.
is this a joke?