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Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit (www.theverge.com)

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Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity.

In a letter sent to Bonta’s office this week, Meta says that OpenAI “should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and reappropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains.”

The letter, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal and you can read in full below, goes so far as to say that Meta believes Elon Musk is “qualified and well positioned to represent the interests of Californians in this matter.” Meta supporting Musk’s fight against OpenAI is notable given that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were talking about literally fighting in a cage match just last year.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I think you're misunderstanding the origin of the Internet.

I was there, I know what made the Internet amazing before it was sold out for corporate interests.

It was inspired by another technology that was, in many ways, the Internet of the early 20th century. I'm referring to HAM radio.

HAM radio is fun because of the strict regulations operators need to follow and the communities that are fostered in those regulations.

the early Internet was not only built by those same people, but had fostered the same kind of spirit behind HAM. corporate interests broke the dam on a lack of regulation and have been flooding the web for decades since.

if we want to return to any semblance of what the Internet supported at the turn of the century, we must increase regulations that prohibit the abuse and theft of online intellectual property.

If a company can be considered a person, then I see no reason why each of my online contributions can't be one as well. and as such no reason why each of those contributions can't be afforded the same protections of personhood giants like UHC, Amazon, OpenAI can benefit from.