• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    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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          I always think it’s funny how millennials got shit for avocado toast, yet it was my boomer parents who introduced it to me.

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            when I was a boy (GenX), avocados were so cheap, they almost gave them away

            my mom complained one time when they were 25c

            one of my friends that grew up in California had a tree in his back yard and he never purchased one until he moved to Washington State in his 20s

            The fact that it became a target for attacking millennials is so crazy. That people took it seriously for a bit is laughable. To this day my wife and I make jokes that it costs a new mortgage to have one.

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              My brother worked at an avocado packing plant and he would bring me a BOX of ripe avocados that were too ripe to send to market.

              We had to eat those NOW. All the FREE avocados I can eat. Good times.

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        they’ve really gotta stop offering avocado toast at the company cafeteria. That’ll make up the difference.

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      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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            Miiiighty fast. And if you aren’t born with your name on one of the chairs, you’re not even in the game.

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        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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          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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      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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        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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        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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          Search is garbage now, but I’d bet even money he is lifting text directly from House of El–or they have a common source.

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            I’ve felt for a while that House of El uses LLMs heavily in their scripts. It’s a pandemic on YouTube feels like.
            So yeah, the common source is likely clanker speak.