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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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OpenAI Is A Bad Business (www.wheresyoured.at)
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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does well on HN is pretty random imho

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OpenAI Is A Bad Business?

Would have done so much better