OpenAI is here because Sam Altman is NOT a product guy. He craves Apple style consumer success, but he's terrible at productizing his technology. Remember the marketplace of custom GPTs? Hell even the name ChatGPT. Anthropic had to show them how to build useful workflows for developers using AI. Meanwhile, OpenAI delivered... Sora.

To actually quote Sam Altman: "I think of ads as a last resort for a business model."

It's just maddening to me because this technology could be so much more useful for purposes way beyond advertising.

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mrweasel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Never thought of ChatGPT as being just one of the GPTs that could exist, but it make a lot of sense. In a world where OpenAI where better managed, more focused on actually delivering actual value, ChatGPT would be the show case AI product, while the value is generated by the custom solutions delivered to other companies to embed in their products.

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sumedh 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It's just maddening to me because this technology could be so much more useful for purposes way beyond advertising.

AI is a perfect technology for Ads though. Instead of me wasting time reviewing multiple products for my use case, ChatGpt will just give me top 3 recommendations with the pros and cons and then buy it for me.

	▲	lkey 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The one thing it will never recommend is no product at all. You've ceded even the glimmers of discernment that remain in you and all I feel is pity. It is not a 'waste of time' to interrogate your own desires. There's no such thing as a 'top 3' for all things under heaven. You cannot purchase yourself a solution to every 'use case'. Furthermore, even if there were such a ranking, the ad machine would not reveal it to you, as you are not the customer, you are the mark. You don't even want to be bothered to hit the 'buy it now' button. This is the mental model of an immaculate rube. You deserve better.
	▲	array_key_first an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But this loses value as soon as ads come into play because of incentives. It's hard to trust recommendations when ads are in the mix.

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miltonlost 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It's just maddening to me because this technology could be so much more useful for purposes way beyond advertising.

Can it tho? The problem with LLMs right now is that they don't have much useful purposes beyond spam, slop, hallucinated searches, and advertisements. The lack of a product is why there isn't a profit to be made in them