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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Unrelated, I can't help noticing how much Altman reminds me of Luke Dunphy from Modern Family.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

You take that back!

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If Microsoft is expected to keep shoveling money into a bottomless pit, the bottomless pit is expected to keep producing temporary gains to the donor’s stock price.

Turns out the only people willing to pay for AI are other tech investors.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's ouroboros all the way down.

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

*ouroBROs 🤑

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 25 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It's not a 'bromance' if they're not dudes. They are companies.

[–] tinsuke@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Blame Altman on that one, from the article:

Altman once called OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft “the best bromance in tech,”

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't care what Altman said. These are megacorporations using buzzwords. No need to mutilate ourselves into idiotic commercials for them.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Corporations are people, my friend

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No they're not, guy. I aggressively dismiss any legal vomit that claims they are.

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Altman is definitely a tech bro. Nadella is, I'd say, also one, although I'm getting a bit of "How do you do, fellow kids" vibe from him.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 12 hours ago

nvidia executive called saltman a podcasting bro

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I am surpised anyone would work with altman, dude radiates grifter among the grifter.

I wouldnt be surpised if he goes down similar to theranos and ftx scammers.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Keep a close eye on worldcoin.

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Take a cup a coffee, a comfortable seat, and enjoy the posts from Ed Zitron about OpenAI and the AI fever in general outlining clearly how that hype is a financial disaster waiting to happen. It's a good read: www.wheresyoured.at

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

And OpenAI is getting desperate. According to Fortune, OpenAI’s culture is deeply brittle, with a “relentless pressure to introduce products” rushing its o1 model to market as Sam Altman was “eager to prove to potential investors in the company’s latest funding round that OpenAI remains at the forefront of AI development” despite staff saying it wasn’t ready. 

These aren’t the actions of a company that’s on the forefront of anything — they’re desperate moves made by desperate people burning the candle at both ends.

Yet, once you get past these problems, you run head-first into the largest one: that generative AI is deeply unprofitable to run. When every subscriber or API call loses you money, growth only exists to help flog your company to investors, and at some point investors will begin to question whether this company can stand on its own two feet. 

It can’t. 

OpenAI is a disaster in the making, and behind it sits a potentially bigger, nastier disaster — a lack of any real strength in the generative AI market. If OpenAI can only make a billion dollars as the leader in this market (with $200 million of that coming from Microsoft reselling its models), it heavily suggests that there is neither developer nor user interest in generative AI products.

Whew. It’s brutal.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

That's one of the articles, Ed has two or three more about the whole AI scam that's interesting to read.