Maybe worse is how much this lowers my trust in OpenAI even further than it already had been. Dall-E was not a small platform; it was a cultural phenomenon accessed by hundreds of millions of users. It's bewildering that OpenAI would so silently "take it behind the shed."
I'm searching, and it doesn't seem as if there was even an HN post about the shutdown. So, it didn't even hit this place's radar. How many of you are hearing this for the first time?
I don't understand how a company like OpenAI could be so reckless with user data integrity and access, particularly when sunsetting a product. All of the big-dog tech platforms have fairly robust protocols for notifying users and allowing them to download their data (even with hoops to jump through). How can they hope to be one while still acting like a "move fast and break things" startup? I liked the thing they broke.
I don't understand how one can have such a rosy view of OpenAI at this point after all the dishonesty, subversiness and shadiness we have seen in public. Transitive trust is an insidious thing, I guess?
And this one doesn't even sound particularly egregious, I could hardly call this evil.
Either shift down expectations of this company considerably or be disappointed again.
What are you talking about? I haven't heard anything negative about them other than generic "things are changing" grumbling
Or perhaps the extremely explicit promise to put all of us out of work forever.
Have you actually heard anything at all about this company from the real world?
Even the people who like ChatGPT were quite unhappy about the sudden deprecation of 4o and replacement by 5.
On that note, there seems to be a pattern.
You had high trust in Open AI? I guess you missed many emails.
But you didn't own it. You fell in love with a service that was offered at-will by one party, and then they left.
This is the fate of all services, some faster than others. Don't like it? Stop paying for subscription slop.