I see OpenAI making a significantly larger amount from defense contracts than from advertisements pumped into chats. So I wonder whose bright idea it was to create a public perception risk.

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Larrikin 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Every single MBA can show for at least one quarter revenue is up after they introduced ads. They do not care what happens after if they can plan their career around that.

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saghm 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish I had the optimism that you did about companies being willing to stop at just doing one dubious thing or another for money when there's nothing stopping them from doing both.

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peddling-brink 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe the negative press from ads is better than the negative press from powering murderbots?

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tayo42 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Bad press from a contract like that happens once and everyone forgets. Ads are in your face everytime

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peddling-brink 8 hours ago | parent [-]

"OpenAI Powered Drone Destroys Elementary School, Hundreds of Children Dead" might last a while.

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Enginerrrd 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean Palantir’s targeting product led to EXACTLY that outcome and it seems to have been largely forgotten already, and they managed to avoid a lot of bad press about it.

	▲	dopa42365 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There's no evidence that it wasn't one of those Iranian generic Tomahawk™ missiles! When Germany last cooked 150 civilians we also investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong (could happen to anyone, really), but at least some minister had the decency to retire afterwards.
	▲	peddling-brink 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes but that's "normal", _we_ all know that palantir is evil, so this is _normal_ for them. My extended family has never heard of palantir, and frankly this is the first time I've heard of them being linked to the horrific tragedy in Iran[0]. My entire extended family uses chatgpt. It would be a much juicier news wave if they were responsible. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...