Shawn Wang: belief

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…Yeah. On the New York Times thing, OpenAI's strategy has been to make the New York Times prove that their content is actually any original or like actually interesting. Really? Yeah. So it's kind of like the iRobot meme. It's like, can a robot create a beautiful new symphony? And the robot is like, can you? I think that's what OpenAI's strategy is. Yeah. I think that the danger with the lawsuit, because this lawsuit is very public. Because OpenAI responded, including with Ilya, showing their emails with New York Times, saying that, hey, we were doing a deal. You were like very close to a deal. And then suddenly on the eve of the deal, you called it off. I don't think New York Times has responded to that one. But it's very, very strange because the New York Times' brand is like trying to be, you know, they're supposed to be the top newspaper in the country. If OpenAI, and this was my criticism of it at the point in time, like, okay, we'll just go to the next best paper, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, they're all happy to work with us. And then what does New York Times have? Yeah, yeah, yeah.…

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