then why are you reading hacker news comments about it?
I guess I have a masochistic streak.
Readit Newsthfjdtsrsg commented on OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic cnbc.com/2024/08/06/opena... · Posted by u/tzury
Th reality is that every other person in tech now is hoping for Sama to fail. The world doesn't need AI to have a silicon valley face. Anthropic is doing a much, much better PR work by not having a narcissist as CEO.
Contrarily, I think the reality is that most of us couldn't care less about this AI soap opera.
> The rubber will meet the road when the first free and open AI website gets real traction. And monetizes it with ads next to the answers.
The magic of genAI is they don't need to put ads next to the answers where they can easily be ignored or adblocked, they can put the ads inside the answers instead. The future, like it or not, is advertisers bidding to bias AI models towards mentioning their products.
That's probably true but I don't see how it's any different from companies paying TikTok influenzas to manipulate the kids into buying certain products, the Chinese government paying bot farms to turn Wikipedia articles into (not always very) subtle propaganda, SEO companies manipulating search results, etc. Advertisers and political actors have always been a shady bunch and now they have a new weapon in their arsenal. That's all, isn't it?
I'm left with the impression that people on and off Hackernews just like drama and gloomy predictions about the future.