If AGI was around the corner, they wouldn’t have to resort to what some consider a scummy way to make money. They’d would become the most valuable company on the planet, winning the whole game. Ads show you they don’t know what else to do but they desperately need money.

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_aavaa_ 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This doesn’t answer the actual question: why they wouldn’t just do both?

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fwlr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There are costs to doing ads (e.g. it burns social/political capital that could be used to defuse scandals or slow down hostile legislation, it consumes some fraction of your employees’ work hours, it may discourage some new talent from joining).

	▲	_aavaa_ 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You have AGI, why do you care about new talent? You have AGI to do the ads. You have AGI to pick the best ads. Isn't that the pitch of AGI? Solve any problems?

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KellyCriterion 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yes but if AGI is around the corner, with what would they make money then?

Selling this AGI to a state actor? OK - this seems realistic, but for how many billions then? 100b per year?

Thats what I meant.

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sumedh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> consider a scummy way to make money.

How should Chatgpt survive then?

	▲	parrellel an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well, the obvious answer is none of these companies should.