• Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    That isn’t a fair comparison. Winrar has been here for decades, while OpenAI is relative new. Give OpenAI 2 decades of time and we can then see it loss 5 trillion dollar.

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    3 days ago

    Well maybe OpenAI has only made 0 dollars now. But, give it a few years and its sure to make at least $000,000,000,000.00.

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    2 days ago

    To be honest I am more profitable than OpenAI. My salary covers my expanses and I still have some money left at the end of the month. Can Sam Altman say the same about OpenAI?

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    I really love desktop applications. They do their job, you install it and it’s done. And you can work towards next version and such while people can decide to not upgrade.

    Now everything is cloud, they only maintain one version, they can change it whenever, you can’t get any say, and have to always agree on their policies. And have Internet connection.

    If I could make money making desktop applications, I would love that job. Everything is web and AI now

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    The time I put some money to see how options worked and lost it all was more profitable than OpenAI. I only lost some $300.

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      I considered sharing my own choices that led to lost money, while still more profitable than OpenAI…but there are just too many.

      Edit: Here’s one - that time Homer Simpson bought a mint condition copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, and then ate it - was still more profitable than OpenAI.

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    Did they ever found that guy that bought that WinRAR license? It’s one of a kind and must be worth a lot more now.

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    I really wonder how many people pay for LLMs. I used to have my company pay for one product but that was company money. hard for me to believe I would’ve ever spent my own money on that. Unless it was $20 a year instead of $100, I guess then maybe I would have. I think the fact that every tech company is cramming LLMs for free into every product is a sign that most people wouldn’t pay for them.

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      AI: here are some numbers you asked me for. 7 , 554, 90871, 3.1425, 276, -4, 1155. If you tell how you gonna use them I can make a preformatted document. Do you want me to make a year staterment of your bookkeeping? Or name a country and i provide a random phone number from there.