OpenAI Flags Competition Concerns To EU Regulators (reuters.com) 12
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI said on Thursday the arguments it presented to EU authorities last month mirrored its public statements about competition in the AI space, particularly in the context of antitrust investigations into Alphabet's Google. The ChatGPT-maker recently took its concerns to EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera, telling her office during a September 24 meeting about the difficulties it faces in competing with entrenched giants. It also urged the regulators to prevent large platforms from locking in users, Bloomberg News reported earlier on Thursday, citing meeting notes. OpenAI said the European Commission was already examining how large, vertically integrated platforms were leveraging existing market positions into AI, including by reviewing specific intercompany agreements.
I thought EU anti-trust (Score:2)
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was purely to hurt US companies? /s
That depends entirely upon whether US companies stand to benefit from EU anti-trust laws or not in any given situations. This is a far easier and more agile process in the US, you just keep buying Trump's meme-coin until he does what you want.
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They're designed to purely hurt MegaCorps, which coincidently happen to often be US companies, as per the historical mistake of the US forgetting their own history with the Standard Oil Company.
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That's just a side effect.
The main purpose is collect money.
Entrenched giants ... (Score:3)
They do have a point about new players having trouble competing against abusive 'entrenched giants' but in the particular case of OpenAI I've got to say this is the pot calling the kettle black because OpenAI wants to become an abusive entrenched giant and if the way they have run roughshod over IP and copyrights to get where they are today isn't enough to convince the public of this then the public needs to be beaten over the head with a clue stick.
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Probably all true, but right now, OpenAI is something of a small player because the Microsofts (especially) and the Googles have pushed their own AI products with their other products - keeping OpenAI out of those playgrounds.
If somehow the playing field is levelled and OpenAI get to compete in those spaces, then they'll sure as you like start trying to muscle out other people. Then we go around the same loop all over again but with different players.
My cynical suspicions are that the likes of Google and Mi
Google and Microsoft (Score:2)
A few notes.
Google has been the leader in ML/AI before OpenAI even existed. It has been integrated in their products for well over a decade, including translate, autocorrect, sentence completion, predictive search, etc. Google literally authored and publicly released the leading research on AI and LLMs, including the key research on âoeattentionâ.
Microsoft and OpenAI were bedfellows early on with the specific intent of embedding AI into Microsoft projects. Then OpenAI screwed over Microsoft.
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If you are worth $500 BILLION and can't compete... (Score:3)