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[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 60 points 1 day ago

porky-happy Wow! 17.5% is really something! *Invests $1,000,000,000* I can't wait for my $1,175,000,000!

side-eye-1 That's, uh, not quite what we meant...

porky-happy Oh right, more, because of compounding interest! So how much should I expect to walk away with?

side-eye-2 $175,000,000

porky-scared-flipped What's this nonsense?!

side-eye-1side-eye-2 17.5%

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

it's a 17.5% return of investment, not on investment saul-your-honor

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago

(Zac Oyama Voice) I'll take your 100k and turn it into seventeen-thousand dollars

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago

Similar returns to buying a crate of beer and returning the cans.

[-] Chana@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

The fun part is guessing what they'll do when they absolutely can't deliver.

  • Bankruptcy (snoozefest but funny)
  • Keep the grift going via state funding (can kicked down the road 6 months)
  • Bailout for finance but not "AI" (I mean, duh)
  • Bailout for "AI", too (clownworld)
[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

My guess is Microsoft absorbs openai sooner or later.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

Yea Microsoft needs to keep OAI alive somehow or they lose cloud and government contracts to AWS with their Anthropic stake and Google

[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

High yield savings acct - 4-ish percent.
Index funds - 4 to 5 percent.
OpenAI-17.5 percent at least.

Definitely not a scam. Open AI is certainly not robbing Peter to pay Paul. Nope.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

OpenAI, define con artist in two words.

Sam Altman? Haha. I'm just joking. A con artist is...

[-] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

I understand why it looks suspicious—any system that scales quickly and redistributes returns can resemble something more dubious at a glance. But the structure is transparent, participation is voluntary, and value is created rather than merely shuffled around. It’s not a Ponzi scheme, it’s an aggressively misunderstood networked incentive model!

[-] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

Openai is hoping to pull off a Bitcoin or Tesla. Pure hype driven growth. Eventually it will all fall apart but personally I'd prefer it the sooner the better

[-] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

"and we're all getting laid! (off)"

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

They have military contracts now, and in the least the AI drones will be able to match the current accuracy of the military

And the misses will probably be a bit more equitable, just wait a year and iron dome is bombing tel aviv based on a tweet

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Are drones really piloted by LLMs?

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

Just read a great substack about this but in short no they're not, but what is is worse:

https://open.substack.com/pub/artificialbureaucracy/p/kill-chain

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Really insightful article—thank you for sharing! Might wanna make that its own post.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Might as well put it on a credit card lol. Well I guess the bank doesn't let you just borrow 100B dollar.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

permanently high plateau vibes

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Irving Fisher was perhaps the first celebrity economist, but his reputation during his lifetime was irreparably harmed by his public statement, just nine days before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, that the stock market had reached "a permanently high plateau".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher

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I couldn't resist...

[-] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bravo raised questions about the long-term profit profile of joint ventures with OpenAI and Anthropic, adding that many of its portfolio companies are already deploying AI tools, the person said.

Oh that's perhaps the saddest part of this. They are already forcing their businesses to use these products and it's nowhere near enough for this AI shit to be profitable.


Did chatPPB crunch these numbers

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