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  • batsforpeace [any, any]
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    OpenAI could be propped up by MS for a while even if it doesn't make a profit, to keep the brand name alive, for the smaller AI startups I guess it will be the same story as with crypto? VC investors put some money in, hype up retail investors to also invest, cash out/exit, then the startups slowly close because they can't turn a profit leaving the smaller investors with most of the losses

    edit: also lol at making public bets on this, got nothing better to do?

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      • batsforpeace [any, any]
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        will do, yeah I heard MS paid OpenAI mostly in Azure credits lol, nothing like paying yourself

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
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    Excellent article.

    The stuff about their deal with Microsoft is crazy. MS gets 75% of the profit until they recoup $10B, and free access to any technology OpenAI has or will make until they achieve AGI. So anyone investing in OpenAI is basically only betting that they achieve AGI before they go bankrupt.

    That also means Microsoft has little reason to buy OpenAI. Based on the deal, it seems MS is very skeptical of their chances at achieving AGI. It's not a situation where Altman can bluff them into thinking they're making progress, MS has access to see what's really going on.

    • coderade [any, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      I think they’d just do a like indirect acquisition or whatever they call it when they hire all the engineers and buy the IP. Wait for OpenAI to burn too much cash, hire their best, and get all the rights to the IP then just laugh

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  • Owl [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    It's exactly the opposite! Prediction/betting markets are possibly the most/only reliable way to forecast things with otherwise limited information. Prediction Markets are extremely accurate since being wrong makes people poor and they use every trick in the book to not be poor.

    Huffing farts over here.

    I played with prediction markets for fun for a while. They're completely headline-driven and hype focused. I made a steady profit by betting against every "will X happen by Y deadline" available. Thus, while OpenAI has no business model and is a doomed company, I would not take that guy's bet.

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  • shreddingitlater [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/

    This was a little annoying. Idk if the article is in the thread linked by OP, but I couldn't find it. The link just goes to Twitter, and if you don't have Twitter (never getting one either), you can't see replies or what people are replying to.

    All this to say LINK THE ARTICLE IF ITS RELEVANT GOD DAMMIT IM NOT GETTING A FUCKING TWITTER ACCOUNT

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