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[–] [S] 118 points 1 month ago (21 children)

OpenAI promised investors an AI gold rush. Now its projected annual revenue is reportedly $20 billion below earlier expectations. That’s not a rounding error: that’s an entire business empire missing from the spreadsheet. Silicon Valley keeps calling it a revolution, but increasingly it looks like a trillion dollar game of musical chairs, with investors hoping the music never stops.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Its a trillion dollar game of musical chairs with roughly 8.3 billion people playing and only a few thousand chairs.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That’s just life you’re describing. Life in capitalism, that is.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nah, far from everyone wants to be a trillionaire, nor a billionaire. Sure most would want financial independence, but not a lot more than that

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Ahh but you are falling into a common fallacy, you probably think that because there is enough money to go around everyone should have a enough to meet their needs, then the excess can be an incentive for people who make outsized contributions to society, like a not sociopathic member of the human race.

    The bloodsucking leech class view the existence of other people with needs as a personal insult. They feel every cent of money should be theirs personally, or as a barely acceptable compromise maybe shared around an "elite" class.

    If Bezos for instance could have all the money and just issue Amazon Bucks™ based on how useful you are to him he would love that.

    Honestly the reason we know Elon isn't a real gamer is that he doesn't have a bunch of four "agents" in trenchcoats with neuralinks and miniguns running around cities as he directs them to from an airship overhead. Otherwise that game would be as close to a masturbatory fantasy as someone who can't get hard after all the Special K would get.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    And even the fifty billions may be inflated, as it is "annualized" revenue which can mean "we took a period of peak usage and generalized it to a year"

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Didn't Anthropic calculate it based on the best day and multiplying by 365?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This account reeks of clanker. Are people just okay with that or am I missing something?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Don't have the energy to look into the account itself, but this comment does have that "it's not just x it's y" stank. It's everywhere nowadays, it's fucking exhausting.
    In blog posts, in news articles, YouTube videos and now in fucking lemmy comments. Disgusting.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Why do you sound like the House of El?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    It's an LLM adbot, or, at best, someone having LLM craft all of their comments and posts.

    The accounts profile heavily advertises services for LLM adbots covertly advertising to people using social media.

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