https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/corporations-people-doctrine-real-legal-concept

And I agree with you. Good luck taking down the Supreme Court! Go get ‘em!

And OpenAI is getting desperate. According to Fortune, OpenAI’s culture is deeply brittle, with a “relentless pressure to introduce products” rushing its o1 model to market as Sam Altman was “eager to prove to potential investors in the company’s latest funding round that OpenAI remains at the forefront of AI development” despite staff saying it wasn’t ready.

These aren’t the actions of a company that’s on the forefront of anything — they’re desperate moves made by desperate people burning the candle at both ends.

Yet, once you get past these problems, you run head-first into the largest one: that generative AI is deeply unprofitable to run. When every subscriber or API call loses you money, growth only exists to help flog your company to investors, and at some point investors will begin to question whether this company can stand on its own two feet.

It can’t.

OpenAI is a disaster in the making, and behind it sits a potentially bigger, nastier disaster — a lack of any real strength in the generative AI market. If OpenAI can only make a billion dollars as the leader in this market (with $200 million of that coming from Microsoft reselling its models), it heavily suggests that there is neither developer nor user interest in generative AI products.

Whew. It’s brutal.

You take that back!

Corporations are people, my friend

Is there a transcript?

That’s true. But still. Duh.

Wow, they fired a lot of people.

Do those customers include the US government?

Reader, they do.

In July, before the latest WP Engine blowup, an Automattic employee wrote in Slack that they received a direct message from Mullenweg sending them an identification code for Blind, an anonymous workplace discussion platform, which was required to complete registration on the site. Blind requires employees to use their official workplace emails to sign up, as a way to authenticate that users actually work for the companies they are discussing. Mullenweg said on Slack that emails sent from Blind’s platform to employees’ email addresses were being forwarded to him. If employees wanted to log in or sign up for Blind, they’d need to ask Mullenweg for the two-factor identification code. The implication was that Automattic—and Mullenweg—could see who was trying to sign up for Blind, which is often a place where people anonymously vent or share criticism about their workplace.

Kids - when the website demands your real identification, it’s not anonymous, ok. Pick a lane - do you want to be anonymous or do you want to post on this “Blind” site.

Here’s an example of my suggestion:

Blind: sign up with your genuine work email so you can talk shit about your company, bosses, and co-workers!

Me: closes window

😱

Llolma

O noes the spacexbois are gonna dunvote us

Shhhh!

Get that guy outta here - he knows too much

Pro tip - that unibody macbook has one of the best laptop keyboards out there. You can grab one for like thirty bucks.

They could have spun this to their advantage but decided to bite the hand that was supporting them for free.

Zendesk, Lastpass, All-The-Eggs-In-The-Cloud-Basket, all these products require dedicated internal teams to maintain anyway.

IT directors of old didn’t trust FOSS but did get rich signing over their company’s security to whoever showed up with a dog-and-pony show. Surprise - they’re just as lazy and cheap as you!

Compromised air-gapped systems with http server and GoogleDrive?

Saywhat?

Hey, member when you always had to have IE for one of “those” sites and it was basically just an awful browser everyone was forced to have like as a legal requirement or something?

Heh. IE. Then when you’d use it to download firefox it’d say “Nooooo! Wait! I’m teh Best Browser!!” Hahahahah

IE. Ded.

F*ing magnets - how do they work?