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OpenAI Is A Bad Business (www.wheresyoured.at)

submitted 2 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] FredFig@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That same tired script of "You can't say AI is useless, I use it as a $productivityApp, so it's clearly not worth nothing, which invalidates all your claims." shows up in Zitron's comment box, it's like clockwork.

I dunno man, maybe it's because the ability to generate templates and spellcheck is a free feature in most IDEs and would be a rounding error of a rounding error when we're talking about billion dollar investments?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh my god, this particular point has been so frustrating to me. People talking about how much time it saves them with boilerplate code: If it's that boilerplate make yourself a fucking template! Learn your IDE's damn features, because most have code snippet features now where you can save them right in the damn IDE.

There's vanishly little that LLMs are actually being used for that can't be done far cheaper (computatiomally and cost-wise) with existing tools.

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s vanishly little that LLMs are actually being used for that can’t be done far cheaper (computatiomally and cost-wise) with existing tools.

Reminds me of the most recent Adam Conover podcast. He had as guests two computer scientists who were purportedly critical of AI, and one of them still shat out something to the effect of:

It does have a use case where something takes longer to produce than it does to verify. For example, a website ...

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

I know generally speaking, people want to use very exacting language when talking about technicals, so it's not that strange when people hedge edge cases - it's just what they're taught to do in their careers.

But, when we're talking about financials, instead of being detailed and careful, it's just sounds desperate when you have to tack on a hundred dollar value add to your supposedly million dollar company.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah I’m sure it’s helpful sometimes. The issue is it useful enough to enough people to justify burning billions of dollars on training?

Ed isn’t criticizing GenAI, he’s criticizing OpenAi’s business model. Big difference.