Fuck AI

Jesus, dude... Their fucking business model is theft and they still can't make a profit...

Lemme go buy some shares right now! 🙄

If they’re already in the Degradation stage of the Enshitification process they’re fucked.

It was always the first resort. It just needed to reach a certain amount of users to convince advertisers to advertise. Welcome to the first milestone of doom. It only gets worse from here.

Who... even is Sam Altman?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XyI38Vp1PGw

Oh, he's basically a less lucky and somehow less competent version of Mark Zuckerberg.

He doesn't know anything like, theoretical or technical about AI, he has no expertise, he's just a guy with a failed startup or two under his belt, who then become the hypeman for investing schemes/incubators.

He, like many in the tech industry, just... acts like he knows what he is talking about, and... for quite a long time, people believed it.

He's basically a complete fraud, just, as a person, beyond all the literal financial fraud he's orchestrated.

So... We're nearing the end, then?

I'm gonna have a good laugh when emails start arriving in my inbox from colleagues and externals with weird ads in the body of the text. Because considering the amount of people that just paste the bot replies in their emails, this will happen, frequently.

This was inevitable. Anyone who has a basic understanding of how GenAI works knows the only thing they're actually marketable for use for is advertising. Nobody wants to read (or write) an LLM generated book or make a movie with a script written by ChatGPT.

Because LLMs don't make money. They are prohibitively expensive to run at scale due to the compute and energy requirements, and model fine-tuning adds yet more cost. RAG systems are even more prohibitive and complex.

The only reason they have been developed to such extent is investor money rolling around in a giant loop. Once this stops, every company hosting LLMs has to raise prices to try and make the unprofitable profitable -- but the compute and energy costs don't change in a significant way (unless it's up).

Ads here are likely an attempt to recoup what is dwindling investor capital. I seriously doubt any of these giant models can be brought to actual profitability.

Eventually, the bottom just falls out.

"Cut my life into pieces..."

ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam (please don't let the AI bubble burst) Altman once called them a 'last resort.'

I've noticed this on Gemini too. I didn't want to search through the annoying internet recipe experience these days so I tried Gemini. "Find me an ice cream recipe"

"Sure! Recipe is blah blah..... Also, OXO makes a great container for your ice cream! And there is a great Ice cream scoop also made by OXO!"

Sam Altman answering the question "Can shit be enshittified?"

Well he wasn't lying.

Ads always come at the end, at the last part of enshittification, so yeah, last resort indeed

Eh, fuck chatgpt, fuck Sam Altman in specific, with an umbrella

Finally the AI innovation we were promised.

Enshitification speed run.

/s

Who the fuck still uses ChatGPT when there are so many open source alternatives that are much cheaper and sometimes even better overall?

Not to much longer then.

Well, yeah. They're burning money faster than any ten startups I've ever seen. Of course they're at a last resort.

Scammy Sammy shouldn't be believed in the best of circumstances.

These aren't by any stretch of the imagination the best of the circumstances.

"last resort" here meaning the final resort stay on an extended tour of increasingly more luxurious resorts

I read that as chatgpt is getting aids. Sounds about right, not a bad analogy.

Butlerian Jihad When?

Also, punchable face.

Seems like the end is near if they need to put ads to try to stop the profuse money bleed (that will still continue regardless).

you mean his first and only resort. consider you are one of peter thiels protege as well.

It was obviously planned.