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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

So people are really believing Altman would publish these damning statements without ulterior motives? Are we seriously this gullible? Holy shit, we reached a critical mass of acephalous humans, no turning back now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sam, just add sponsored content. The road to enshittification doesn't have to be long! Make it shitty fast so people can move past it and start hosting their own models for their own usage.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

so when was youtube profitable?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Youtube wasn't burning billions per year and it's also pretty much the primary entity for video for the whole world which has other benefits for google. Finally Google can be monetized, since storage and bandwidth costs are relatively low. Whereas GenAI's compute costs aren't.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I don't think Youtube was ever profitable, to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

An ad before and after every single question you ask chatgpt? Worth a shot, I guess !

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good. Burn that thing to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Likely they'll try to sell it to governments, and with Elon Musk proposing goVeRNmeNt eFfIciEnCy, at least xAI can become somewhat profitable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Good riddance. We never asked for it, and we didn’t deserve it forced on us.

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