Comment by netdevphoenix
17 hours ago
That's really bad. But then again OpenAI was he coolest company for a year two and now it's facing multiple existential crises. Chances are that the company won't be around by 2030 or will be partially absorbed by Microsoft. My take is that GPT-5 will never come out if it ever does it will just be to mark the official downfall of the company because it will fail to live to the expectations and will drop the valuation of the company.
LLMs are truly amazing but I feel Sama has vastly oversold their potential (which he might have done based on the truly impressive progress that we have seen in the late 10s early 20s. But the tree's apple yield hasn't increased and watering more won't result in a higher yield.
I've reframed ChatGPT as a google alternative without ads and am really happy when using it this way. It's still a great product and they'll be able to monetize it with ads just like google did.
Personally it's quite disappointing because I'd have expected at least some engineer to say "it's not a bug it's a feature" or "thanks for informative vulnerability report, we'll fix it in next release".
But just ignoring it on so many avenues feels bad.
I remember when 15yrs ago I reported something to Dropbox and their founder Arash answered the e-mail and sent me a box of tshirts. Not that I want to chat with sama but it's still a startup, right?