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"You've somehow missed all the "enshitification" processes Cory Doctorow and others have been documenting?" I read about it, but don't believe it's a new law n
by ajmurmann 3y ago
"You've somehow missed all the "enshitification" processes Cory Doctorow and others have been documenting?"
I read about it, but don't believe it's a new law now that affects everything with no exceptions. Even is OpenAI wants to go from explore and expand into extract mode, open-source models are getting better every day and will create a decent floor.
> you'd need over 130,000 paying subscribers at $20/month just to cover the interest on the loans.
Maybe I live in a bubble (I definitely do), but that subscriber number seems quite reasonable and of course omits additional revenue from their APIs. Also if OpenAI wants to lose money, be my guest. I definitely enjoyed my VC-subsidized Uber rides of the past.
- r00fus 3y agoIt's not a property of the company. It's a property of the funding mechanism. Anything getting its funds from VC or hedge-funds will eventually succumb to this - it's the capital speaking.
- ajmurmann 3y agoOnly if the market isn't competitive enough to allow for it. Especially if OSS LLMs are viable companies have little leverage to go shitty. What's the course of action you recommend? Using nothing that's VC funded because Corey Doctorow says it will become shitty eventually?
- r00fus 3y agoThe course of action is to lobby your representatives to amend the tax code to close the carried interest loophole.