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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months ago

OpenAI Is A Bad Business

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OpenAI Is A Bad Business

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OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after
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    This landed on HN like a dead fish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722985

    Another submission with what looks like a lot more positive spin got more reaction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726603

    Edit choice comment from the latter

    If you assume that the costs of inference would continue to decrease while they would be able to get billion people hooked on 42 per dollar plan…

    That’s $0.5 trillion revenue rate

    A billion people. Paying the equivalent of a premium streaming service. For something that can’t even generate pr0n.

    Color me skeptical.

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      Hat tip also to the guy who tried to spin “oil is a commodity” as though there’s the same demand and economies of scale for chatbots as for liquid dinosaurs.

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      What does well on HN is pretty random imho

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        dang does hate Ed’s site in particular, up to faking titles

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          OpenAI Is A Bad Business?

          Would have done so much better

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            (concat “OpenAI” (“is” (“Bad” (“Business”)))

            Insta front page.

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