Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
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even if openai are assholes, chatgpt is still useful for things as long as you dont put too much trust in it. If that fucker buys it they will turn it into racist shitspewing garbage. Without it, regular people will have no decent or easy way to utilize ai and this new tech will benefit only the rich who will use it to oppress us even worse.
Stinky isnt an idiot, i wish he was. Anything he buys he can and will use to cause harm to us. So this would be bad for us all.
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There’s tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.
Are they as popular, or the default use. How many "alternatives" are actually just piping through chatgpt.
Controlling information means getting control of the defaults, the ones people are used to using.
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Deepseek took the training of foundation models from a billionaire's game to a millionaire's game. If Elon wants an AI monopoly, it'll have to be done through litigation. Which, ya know, they're also trying.
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How to become a millionaire: Start with 97.4 Billion.
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Lol does he even have the money/stocks/bank friends to buy at that price?
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Anyone cozying up to Trump is announcing they have skeletons in their closet and he has the dirt.
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In order to ruin it like Twitter?
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Is he going to buy a “founder” clause in the contract?
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He can afford to pay twice the price of Twitter because he's using government money. Remember he barely swung the 44 billion for Twitter. Now he's buying something for more than double that? After putting code into the Treasury department computers to hide transactions?
Lmao.
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Regular users can use Gemini, Deepseek, Meta AI, and there will probably be many more services in the future.
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Musk: "Yeah safety as in: We must secure the safety of our people and a future for... "Real American" children."
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Oh, I forgot about Claude. Last time I tried it, it seemed on par or even better that ChatGPT-4o (but was missing features like browsing).
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The Hacker News post you referenced aligns with the broader narrative: Musk’s bid isn’t about acquiring OpenAI but about obstructing its for-profit transition. By setting a high valuation benchmark, he’s complicating regulatory approval and forcing a reassessment of the nonprofit’s stake. This isn’t altruism; it’s a calculated disruption aimed at frustrating Altman and OpenAI’s leadership.
The bid also underscores Musk’s ongoing feud with Altman, weaponizing financial maneuvers to challenge OpenAI’s trajectory. It’s less about AI ethics or governance and more about power plays and ego clashes.
While the restructuring may benefit the nonprofit financially in theory, Musk’s interference highlights how these transitions often prioritize control over mission. Dressing this up as concern for AI governance is disingenuous—it’s a chess match between tech oligarchs, with humanity as the board.
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But being good to your neighbors and doing direct action like volunteering will make a huge difference, and you don't need the news for that!
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It's real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)
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Chatgpt is also censored.
