OpenAI may leave the EU if regulations bite – CEO

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  2. Only open source AI that adheres to no regulation is valuable anyway. Euro politicians are for sure hurting europe with these pointless regs.

  3. Should tell you everything you need to know about his motives.

    1. Demand caution and rules that make it harder to work with AI.
    2. Protest the rules that affect him to get exceptions.

    Look up f.u.d. Strategy on wikipedia, the end goal is to achieve monopoly by stopping others from making progress.

  9. We’ve already lost the tech industry anyway.

    Soon our role in the world will just be to cater to rich American tourists.

  11. Some of the open LLM models are getting pretty good, but the EU needs to offer computation/ resources to open source projects that will comply with its rules.

    Hopefully, supported and led by EU-based companies. That way they’ll get:
    – Good/competitive models that work within the legislation
    – Prevent the competition from getting a big leg-up in AI
    – Help EU company’s get a big edge, since they’ll work with the legislation out of the box, and you can have “hosted” versions for ease of use for most people and developers

  12. So, what’s the next emerging insanely huge field the EU will regulate out of existence to become even less competitive globally?

  16. Buuhuu. Look we created this product without any regard for other peoples rights, and we want to exploit this giant dataset we scraped of the whole internet and not paying anything for it. We would like to keep it this way, oh and users rights and transperancy about what we gather and how we use it, we don’t want that either. Its about time we stand up to these tech conglomerates.

  17. I am very dubious that social media companies like Facebook are likely to outright exit the EU. If EU regulations seriously impact their global competitiveness, my guess is that they will split off part of the company and maintain some level of operation in the EU.

    That’s because with social media, [network effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect) is a major factor. The value of the network is something like the square of the number of users. It’s very likely that a social media service operating in the EU with even somewhat-limited links to a social media network outside of the EU will have a competitive advantage in the EU, and being in the EU provides a significant benefit outside the EU.

    On the other hand, AI stuff like OpenAI doesn’t experience that same phenomenon and, I suspect, may be more-willing to exit a market, as the impact is only linear in the size of that market.

  23. What is the point of banning open AI? Is Europe so stuck in the past they act like Saudi Arabia, China, Russia etc and pretend VPN don’t exist?

    While I understand the OpenAI CEO is someone that only really cares for himself these European companies need to know that this AI technology is not going, and that you are encouraging less control – not more over the internet by making even more people use VPN by banning this technology. Open AI will be far from the only AI soon – even Snapchat has made their for free.

    EU needs to water down regulation on technology in general, this would be an excellent start. Otherwise there will be fewer tech companies and many companies will leave Europe and head towards the US, like many already have.

  25. Prime corporate lobbyists play. Go to market first, then demand regulation. When regulation comes, threaten to withdraw in order to get exemptions. End up sitting pretty.

  26. What a condescending bunch. Brilliant people will leave, innovation will happen, and then you’ll ask yourself why you were left behind.

  32. I kind of had hope that this guy Sam Altman was some new wave of corporate leaders that actually wants to shift the culture to be more sustainable and healthy, but this just proves I was naive as fok

  33. The EU bloc is the tried global economy and one of the largest and wealthiest markets in the world. And you’re telling me you’re gonna leave it. Sure, totally believable threat.

  34. From the EU’s perspective, this could be either great or really bad. It depends if the EU can grow an alternative to OpenAI that is equally as good.

    If OpenAI leaves, they allow other companies to take their niche in the market.

  35. You know Facebook, Apple and Musk have all tried this right?

    You aren’t as powerful as you think, bucko.

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