• @patatahooligan@lemmy.world
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    652 months ago

    No, there isn’t really any such alternate timeline. Good honest causes are not profitable enough to survive against the startup scams. Even if the non-profit side won internally, OpenAI would just be left behind, funding would go to its competitors, and OpenAI would shut down. Unless you mean a radically different alternate timeline where our economic system is fundamentally different.

    • @rsuri@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I mean wikipedia managed to do it. It just requires honest people to retain control long enough. I think it was allowed to happen in wikipedia’s case because the wealthiest/greediest people hadn’t caught on to the potential yet.

      There’s probably an alternate timeline where wikipedia is a social network with paid verification by corporate interests who write articles about their own companies and state-funded accounts spreading conspiracy theories.

    • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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      122 months ago

      There are infinite timelines, so, it has to exist some(wehere/when/[insert w word for additional dimension]).