Readit Newsy_gy commented on I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot app.y.gy/blog/honeypot... · Posted by u/y_gy
Such an interesting read.
I prompts me to wonder whether abuse was one reason that Heroku removed their beloved (among students) free tier.
Most likely. We see a large amount of abuse coming from the replit free tier. And that's pretty similar to what Heroku used to offer.
If you're going to provide people with free compute online, there are just a lot of ways to exploit that.
y_gy commented on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] courthousenews.com/wp-con... · Posted by u/modeless
Not to speak about OpenAI specifically, but people who know what they’re doing still cost a buttload of $$$$.
Even I as a software engineer have a minimum salary I expect because I’m good at my job.
Just because it’s a non-profit doesn’t mean I’m going to demand a smaller salary.
And if the non-profit can’t afford me and gets a more junior dev and they’re not very good and their shit breaks… well, they should have paid full price.
That said, there ARE a lot of dirty non-profits that exist just to pay their executives.
You're thinking about the wrong thing. It's not about salaries for staff. The fact that it's a non-profit means no corporate taxes. That's where the profits go into the pockets of management, practically.
When others create text to video systems (eg. Lumiere from Google) they publish the research (eg. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12945.pdf). Open AI is all about commercialization. I don't like their attitude
Ironic, isn't it! OpenAI started out "open," publishing research, and now "ClosedAI" would be a much better name.
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