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OpenAI Is A Bad Business (www.wheresyoured.at)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does well on HN is pretty random imho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

OpenAI Is A Bad Business?

Would have done so much better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

(concat "OpenAI" ("is" ("Bad" ("Business")))

Insta front page.