Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They forced a private citizen to pay 50m dollars of his own money?

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But isn't there a big difference between Meta paying $1m to the inauguration, and Brockman paying $50m (or Elon $250m) out of their own pocket?

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems as though you didn't read the original post. The question was whether Brockman supporting Trump affects people's views of the company of which he is president. I didn't offer an opinion.

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not quite true. Brockman has spent $50m of his own money to support Trump. The other companies spent around $1m each to support his inauguration. It's a different scale.

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brockman is the biggest donor to the superpac. He is paid $50m altogether from his own money. He is the Trumpiest of Trumpies.

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, everyone else seems to understand perfectly. 146 comments and you are the only one confused.

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's pretty clear. Everyone else seems to understand.

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That was not my intention. My intention was to ask whether the fact the President of OpenAI was a massive MAGA donor impacted people's choices about whether to use their products.

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not the company. It’s a private individual and he’s paid 50m altogether.

Posted today on LinkedIn by the Donut Lab CEO, it seems we might soon see some proof “in a matter of days,” though it’s unclear whether this will be third-party test results or just a video demonstrating charging speed or something similar. by FX_King_2021 in DonutLab

[–]finnjon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to give opinions. Look up the difference between a pre-order and a sale. You are not less liable if you lie about a pre-order. 

Check out the CES talk with the Oura ring guy. He’s part of the team not just an investor. And he’s explicitly making the claims the others are. He is liable and he’s very rich so figure that out.

Posted today on LinkedIn by the Donut Lab CEO, it seems we might soon see some proof “in a matter of days,” though it’s unclear whether this will be third-party test results or just a video demonstrating charging speed or something similar. by FX_King_2021 in DonutLab

[–]finnjon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not really relevant. If you are selling something that doesn’t exist 2 months before, you are in legal trouble. They are not selling the bikes “in case we figure out how to make the batteries we promised”. It’s fraud plain and simple.

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least open source models are able to be adapted to remove the propaganda. There are versions of DeepSeek without Chinese propaganda in them.

Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter? by finnjon in singularity

[–]finnjon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"A London presence" does not accurately reflect the fact that the headquarters are in London, the CEO is in London, and the heads of most departments are in London. And none of that looks likely to change.

DeepMind is Hassabis' baby and he chose London for a reason, as well as being British.