Look at Google in 2000s. If you travel back in time you would’ve never thought Google would do something like it is doing today. Now pretend you travelled back in time to 2026. You would’ve never thought OpenAI (open source non profit company) would do something crazy that it just did in 2030 or 2040 or where you came from.

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operatingthetan 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think pretty much everyone expects OpenAI to do the bad thing in the future given their track record.

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PullJosh 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I can’t believe they haven’t already

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eswdd 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Too early to do it. You have to wait until people's behaviour is set in stone to the point they need to be compensated heavily to switch.

This isnt rocket science, its basic game-playing on the economic behaviour of humans.

	▲	yunwal 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t think they’ve been successful enough at monopolizing to get away with this to an egregious extent like Google has. Anthropic and Google both have debatably better models with ad-free platforms (so far). And open models are not so far behind.

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ipdashc 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> If you travel back in time you would’ve never thought Google would do something like it is doing today.

I'm not exactly Google's biggest fan, but what does this refer to?

They still just... show ads on search results, no? (Not that most people I know ever see them, thanks to adblockers.) The disclaimers have gotten less prominent, but I think anyone could have expected that. Are there other major things they're doing that couldn't have been expected at all in the 2000s?

	▲	johanyc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I'm confused too. Google is pretty much doing the same thing as it did when they started monetizing search.

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huflungdung 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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