Wow. And just like that fliki.ai and similar products have been sherlocked. Great time to be a creator, not the best time to be a product developer, production designer

I’m more curious how the journal suggestions API will play out and change our relationship with third party apps.

There’s lots of conflicts of interests beyond Adam and his Poe AI. Yes, he was building a commerical bot using OpenAI APIs, but Sam was apparently working on other side ventures too. And Sam was the person who invested in Quora during his YC tenure, and must have had a say in bringing him onboard. At this point, the spotlight is on most members of the nonprofit board

I wouldn’t hold Sam bringing him over in too high a regard. Fucking each other over is a sport in Silicon Valley. You’re subservient exactly until the moment you sense an opportunity to dominate. It’s just business.

Why did Altman bring him onboard in the first place? What value does he provide? If there is a conflict of interest why didn’t Altman see it?

If this Quora guy is the cause of all this, Altman only has himself to blame since he is the reason the Quora guy is on the board.

That Quora guy was CTO and VPEng of Facebook so plenty of connections I guess.

Also Quora seems like a good source of question-and-answer data which has probably been key in gpt-instruct training.

"Business" sucks then. This is sociopathic behavior.

Yes. That is what is valued in the economic system we have. Absolute cut throat dominance to take as big a chunk of any pie you can get your grubby little fingers into yields the greatest amount of capital.

What has been seen can not be unseen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881296

Thanks for that. The discussion feels like a look into another world, which I guess is what history is.

It’s not just business that works like this. Any type of organization of consequence has sociopaths at the top. It’s the only way to get there. It’s a big game that some people know how to play well and that many people are oblivious to.

FWIW, the board structure is more in the spotlight, especially Adam's, since Quora's Poe chatbot uses OpenAI's APIs. And on top of that, Sam was an investor in Quora (2018).

But the Board members of the non-profit company have been leveraging OpenAI's APIs in their other business endeavors -- like, Adam's Poe chatbot for Quora. More details on board's timeline:

https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board

Related read: https://www.techtris.co.uk/p/openai-set-out-to-show-a-differ...

Interesting that Sam is also an investor in Quora: https://blog.samaltman.com/quora

It’s convulated

At least there's no accurate way for a search engine to check for originality. It's like asking a machine to evaluate other machines.

Here's the top-most featured snippet when I google if programming languages had honest slogans: https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/if-your-favourite-programmi...

Half of the above post is plagiarised from my 2020 post: https://betterprogramming.pub/if-programming-languages-had-h...

This reminds me of the current state of blogs vs platforms. The issue with streaming platforms in various formats is that they rake in more money over their lifetime than the creators, simply by acquiring copyrights and hosting it.

There is a “sign up for membership” soft paywall on all stories.

Does something like a blink, wink tracker for swiping UI pique your interest? I built a PoC a while back: https://github.com/anupamchugh/BlinkPoseAndSwipeiOSMLKit