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VCs spend obscene amounts of money trying to manufacture consumer demand for a fake product, then we are left arguing for years about it. Such a waste of time.
by xk_id 2y ago
VCs spend obscene amounts of money trying to manufacture consumer demand for a fake product, then we are left arguing for years about it. Such a waste of time.
- apsec112 2y agoChatGPT got hundreds of millions of users with no advertising, and unlike (say) Google+, OpenAI didn't have a pre-existing userbase to push new products on. So there's clearly some demand.
- xk_id 2y agoNo advertising? You probably mean billboards, but openAI’s advertising includes making a very big fuss about the “dangers” of a stochastic text generator. Advertising is whatever gets people to think about your product. But the demand was created on false pretences, so it also lead to a rational fight against the nonsense. It’s like we got sucked/trolled into a hype. And there are more meaningful things we could have spent our time on.