On OpenAI's Support for Rust - The Rust Foundation
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The Rust Foundation was happy to announce OpenAI as our newest Platinum Member today, as part of a $600,000 total contribution in support of the Rust Project and the broader Rust ecosystem. Membership in the Rust Foundation is a way for companies to support the maintainers who are building the…
  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 days

    Great choice, using some of that VC money for things that actually benefit the world

    • FiniteBanjo@programming.dev
      6 days

      No, OpenAI keeps the debt until they file bankruptcy defrauding investors of many billions total. Likely right before the Trump admin ends so that they can bribe officials to let them off the hook.

      The stolen cash is being used to pressure maintainers for things like Rust.

    • festus@lemmy.caEnglish
      5 days
      1. “Corporations should contribute back to open source projects”
      2. Corporation donates to <project>.
      3. “Fuck <project>”

      It’s not like Rust is using ChatGPT to rewrite the std crate. You’d prefer that they not compensate the humans actually improving the project?

    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
      7 days

      You’ve got it all backwards. In an ideal capitalist world, the greedy software nonprofit foundations bleed the innovative corporations of their well-earned revenue.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      7 days

      No, they are now charging by usage. They will either end up with boatloads of money while people still have ChatGPT integrated into their workflows, or they will end up with zero money as people either switch to other models or realize that AI was a shit idea all along.

      • Jhex@lemmy.world
        7 days

        No, they are now charging by usage.

        Not the actual cost… they are still losing money even in their most expensive tiers. There is just no path to profitability with ANY of the current models, they simply cost more to run than the people they are supposedly trying to replace