OpenAI’s top model just hacked a competitor, but the real issue is much scarier

My first startup was a textbook-buyback service I founded along with several data nerd friends while at Johns Hopkins. Each week, we’d cram $10,000 of cash in a backpack (in retrospect, a terrible idea in urban Baltimore), put out a table on campus, buy textbooks from our fellow students using a pricing algorithm we built, and resell them for a profit online. Being nerds, we constantly tried to refine our algorithm.