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[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

More power to the open source community

[–] millie@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

You can help by asking ChatGPT to produce the most processor intensive prompt it can come up with and then having it execute it repeatedly. With the free version this will burn through your allotment pretty quickly, but if thousands of people start doing it on a regular basis? It'll cost OpenAI a lot of money.

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[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wonder what their financials are actually, usually with cloud capital ventures like these they usually still magically keep raking it in even though they're "losing money".

For instance, Amazon during the pandemic paid zero corporate tax even though they had record sales because they "didn't make any profit", Tesla too who didn't make profit during 2020 yet their share price went 10x and they had plenty of shares to sell if they wanted.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The trick is to spend all the money you earn.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wonder what their financials are actually

If they have a publicly traded part (iirc openai ownership was weird, but dont think they have a publicly traded part (yet)) they should do financial statements, before that doubt anybody can really tell.

Not that those statements are easy to read.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay everyone should create an openai account and start feeding it shit. Ask it the most braindead questions ever, if they your questions as training data itll just fuck the next model up even more.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

This reminds me of this fossil cable company owner. He just couldn't understand why they needed more bandwidth. Netflix and youtube had come in to being and this old fart just didn't get that people were actually using their bandwidth.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks 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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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sooooo, wanna tell us how much the cost really is per prompt?

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This 100% answers my question from another thread. These businesses have cooked the books so bad already that they thought this was gonna save them and it doubled down on em.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good. Burn that thing to the ground.

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