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OpenAI's name suggests transparency, but the reality is different. They keep most technical details private, especially regarding their resource consumption and environmental impact. As they scale, they struggle to justify the enormous financial and resource investments, especially given that some acknowledged models like GPT-4 consume as much energy as entire countries.
Karen How emphasizes that despite initial promises, these organizations have abandoned open research, prioritizing secrecy, proprietary models, and profit motives. This creates an opaque and unaccountable technological frontier enriched by a handful of tech giants, with little oversight.