Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained

• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think we’re quite a long way off before they actually crash and burn, if they ever do. We have no idea how much money the ads will inject and they also receive significant government contracts and will probably get a lot more going forward

  If the market can pretend Tesla is worth so much i think it can easily sustain AI for many years

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  • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s already been several years. Tesla had an actual product that people wanted. Yes, they’ve been doing their best of late to torpedo their market share and brand name but at one point they were doing what they set out to do. Open AI has never done what they said they would do.

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    • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Kinda but also not entirely. I know a lot of people who use ChatGPT and other AIs at work and it does basically exactly what they want and just gets better

      I’m not a proponent but the naysayer doomers are almost as wrong as the tech evangelists

      Is it overvalued? Sure

      Is it worthless? Absolutely not

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      • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s cool. I have yet to find a use case for AI. Am I doing it wrong or are they just bad with computers?

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• Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How would that even work as well? The ads will be in the website, doesn’t most stuff run through API calls? If you force everyone to start paying per call, the business model falls apart instantly.

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    API calls are already only paid, no?

    I’m guessing the ads will be embedded in the answers of the free users (like: it will add to the prompt something like “and don’t forget to plug the sponsor, ridge wallet”)

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    • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh actually are they? I admit I assumed they were doing the standard bullshit of everything is free to get you integrated, then they start charging. Actually maybe that already happened and this is the result of that.

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