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Scott Galloway

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

And it can all be sort of reverse engineered to, of course, the West's Specifically, the UK dividing up India into Pakistan in a very sloppy way that's created all sorts of religious and regional tensions and fights over Kashmir. China is a very strong ally. They describe themselves as an ironclad friend. Of Pakistan. India has very strong relationships with Japan and Israel and the UAE.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

I just hope the adults show up and diffuse the tensions because typically these types of crazy conflicts are real exogenous shocks. It's not the shit you're worried about that gets you. It's the shit you're not thinking about.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

I just hope the adults show up and diffuse the tensions because typically these types of crazy conflicts are real exogenous shocks. It's not the shit you're worried about that gets you. It's the shit you're not thinking about.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

I just hope the adults show up and diffuse the tensions because typically these types of crazy conflicts are real exogenous shocks. It's not the shit you're worried about that gets you. It's the shit you're not thinking about.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

So I'd love to speak to Preet Bharara or someone who's close to the issue, but my general take on first blush is the following, and that is Elon Musk has absolutely catalyzed this. And that is just as there's lawfare, I think this is what I would refer to as nomenclature fair.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

So I'd love to speak to Preet Bharara or someone who's close to the issue, but my general take on first blush is the following, and that is Elon Musk has absolutely catalyzed this. And that is just as there's lawfare, I think this is what I would refer to as nomenclature fair.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

So I'd love to speak to Preet Bharara or someone who's close to the issue, but my general take on first blush is the following, and that is Elon Musk has absolutely catalyzed this. And that is just as there's lawfare, I think this is what I would refer to as nomenclature fair.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

And that is the judge, the attorney general essentially told OpenAI that their proposed transition doesn't fit the strict criteria for transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit. And so effectively what they've done is by saying, oh, no, just kidding.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

And that is the judge, the attorney general essentially told OpenAI that their proposed transition doesn't fit the strict criteria for transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit. And so effectively what they've done is by saying, oh, no, just kidding.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

And that is the judge, the attorney general essentially told OpenAI that their proposed transition doesn't fit the strict criteria for transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit. And so effectively what they've done is by saying, oh, no, just kidding.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

We're one of these ridiculous private benefit corporations that a bunch of VCs could virtue signal and say, I still want on the money, but I want to pretend I'm actually helping humanity. I think it's the most ridiculous corporate classification in history.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

We're one of these ridiculous private benefit corporations that a bunch of VCs could virtue signal and say, I still want on the money, but I want to pretend I'm actually helping humanity. I think it's the most ridiculous corporate classification in history.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

We're one of these ridiculous private benefit corporations that a bunch of VCs could virtue signal and say, I still want on the money, but I want to pretend I'm actually helping humanity. I think it's the most ridiculous corporate classification in history.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

They go back and say, no, we're a not-for-profit, but they're lifting the cap on when the for-profit is entitled to the profits of above $100 billion, which I think only three companies have ever achieved. So this effectively from a mechanical situation or the complexion of the company, the operations or the shareholder governance has absolutely no impact.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

They go back and say, no, we're a not-for-profit, but they're lifting the cap on when the for-profit is entitled to the profits of above $100 billion, which I think only three companies have ever achieved. So this effectively from a mechanical situation or the complexion of the company, the operations or the shareholder governance has absolutely no impact.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

They go back and say, no, we're a not-for-profit, but they're lifting the cap on when the for-profit is entitled to the profits of above $100 billion, which I think only three companies have ever achieved. So this effectively from a mechanical situation or the complexion of the company, the operations or the shareholder governance has absolutely no impact.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

But I think somewhat inoculates them from the kind of the white meat of Musk's accusations in his case. I think the lawyers came back and said, OK, fine. Tell Musk and his lawyers, oh, just kidding. You win. We're still a nonprofit, but it's not going to change anything we do practically.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

But I think somewhat inoculates them from the kind of the white meat of Musk's accusations in his case. I think the lawyers came back and said, OK, fine. Tell Musk and his lawyers, oh, just kidding. You win. We're still a nonprofit, but it's not going to change anything we do practically.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

But I think somewhat inoculates them from the kind of the white meat of Musk's accusations in his case. I think the lawyers came back and said, OK, fine. Tell Musk and his lawyers, oh, just kidding. You win. We're still a nonprofit, but it's not going to change anything we do practically.

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OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plans, Disney and Uber Earnings, and Meta’s “Creepy” AI

It's the same. Nothing changes here except OpenAI's lawyers can say, oh, we are a not-for-profit. He has no case. That's how I read it.

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