It’s an indictment of openAI. They’re a fossil at this point, they need to monetize but their bubble is so big they can barely put a dent in it. How are you going to raise literally the 1 billion dollar a month they spend? China is rolling out models at a fraction of the cost that reach the same level, and notably their companies survive on things other than their LLMs - and they make their models open source too. Like they’re really not concerned about any of these questions over there, they’re just making their models.
The problem is if openAI lets go, their bubble will fly away without them. It’s very cutthroat right now in western tech, with the big 3 companies all trying to outcompete each other but failing to find ways to. And openAI doesn’t do anything but AI, they’re using the startup philosophy (just build product with investment money and we’ll eventually figure out a way to monetize that sticks) but at their size it just doesn’t work anymore. Remember when they rolled out miniGPTs that you were supposed to be able to monetize?
So any little advantage they can cling onto they will push, and this is how openAI has become a joke. I can’t remember the last time I used chatGPT, maybe once or twice a year if I want it to run python code directly but that’s about it.
Oh yeah and z.ai came out of nowhere too last year and can build full stack apps for you. Well, they’re very buggy lol. But it gets a LOT of the job done and I can only expect it will become better down the line. Oh yeah and Chinese models are all free, even in the cloud version.
A lot of this tech also relies on open-source contributions. For example the ubiquitous chatgpt UI style (message panel in the middle of the screen, chat history on the left) has been made into OpenWebUI and this is what most other providers use, possibly with their own tweaks to it but they start from that github repo.
this is the future gooners want and it’s even more cringe than i expected tbh
I’m honestly not sure how much more profitable this’ll make it. It will certainly make it more profitable, but by how much I can’t really tell.
Cause like, on the one hand, people are definitely willing to pay for pornography in general, even in hobbyist spaces. Outside of that you of course have onlydans and such too, which rake in tons from pronography.
But at the same time, it can definitely be a race to the bottom because, as such a base impulse [made even more base by alienation] the standard for quality is infamously low. And people who are going to chatgpt for it are probably more on the side of not paying for things.
So idk. In any case, I don’t like it but :p
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