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		lenerdenator on March 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Open... So Musk's arguing that they had duty to protect his investment in OpenAI from being used for profiteering, and they didn't do that. How's that going to float in an industry whose philosophy is that profit is a very useful abstraction for social benefit?

pclmulqdq on March 1, 2024 [–]

That philosophy doesn't really exist in legal terms when you have a for-profit corporation. There are B-corporations (eg Anthropic) which try to balance those goals, but I'm not sure there's a ton of existing law around that.

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