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OpenAI made $13 billion in 2025 and lost $21 billion doing it (www.techspot.com)
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[–] -1 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

There is no use case for chat boxes. Uber was losing money, but it was driving people to places. Amazon was losing money, but it was delivering books to people. Chat boxes don't do shit.

Uber would have failed if their cars just drove in circles. Amazon would have failed if they didn't deliver anything. There is no real use case for this tech, just like with scam coins or monkey pictures, this is tech searching for a problem to solve.

The most foundational aspect of business is that you gotta do something to get money. What exactly have these chat boxes produced? Shitty porn and incorrect advice. If that's the best they've got after consuming the entirety of human knowledge and guzzling an ocean of freshwater, this shit ain't going nowhere.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You need to actually use it and understand what it does before you clown on.

    Try vibe coding a hello world project with the Opus models and Claude code. It's not perfect by any stretch, but to argue it has no use case is absurd.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The better part of a decade, all the resources in the world, and you expect me to be impressed with something that can't perfectly do an entry level programming project? With that kind of resource usage, I expect a moon landing at the very least.

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