Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
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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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Musk: "Yeah safety as in: We must secure the safety of our people and a future for... "Real American" children."
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He bought Twitter for 44 billion... and the US presidency for 290 million.
That is the single most dystopian shit I have ever heard. The idea that people and countries are so dirt cheap and companies are orders of magnitude more valuable is a thing that should damn their souls to hell.
You how bad this is affecting me? I've been an atheist and anti-death penality most of my life... Musk has for the past while made me think that the death penalty needs to be applied to people like him (and Israeli war criminals) and not to common crooks and common murderers. He is even making me want a hell to exist so people like him can burn in it.
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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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Deepseek only has censorship on their hosted site... if you run the open source model on your own hardware it doesn't seem to censor
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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!
