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> I find it hard to believe the current products OpenAI offers will have good revenue streams given to how competition is catching up I have a hard time believ
by plaidfuji 3y ago
> I find it hard to believe the current products OpenAI offers will have good revenue streams given to how competition is catching up
I have a hard time believing LLM products have good revenue streams at all, regardless of who’s making it. I still don’t use ChatGPT for anything. I think the developer world is obsessed with how well it generates code, but even that I don’t get the sense is worth $80B. I don’t find that feature to be extraordinarily useful, but I guess there are some codebases where it is? I don’t see the value-add applications outside of that. It’s not a search engine despite much hand-wringing about that. The whole document summarization / “style assistant” thing is a neat trick that might come in handy a few times a year. Chatbot girlfriends? Always money in porn I guess. Customer assistance bots? Annoying screen-waster. Writing internal emails? If you’re using it for that I’m sorry for you. Will anyone pay a standalone subscription fee for these in the long run or are they just flashy features to bake into existing products?
Maybe it’s because my knee-jerk response to hype of any kind is to apply extra doubt / scrutiny, idk.