Comment by bflesch
14 days ago
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?
Sadly, it doesn't work that way for OpenAI. OpenAI exists because it promised to be THE AI Company not just another LLM company. Its valuation reflects that. The promises made by the company reflects that. I think OpenAI is basically the guinea pig of this whole LLM experiment. Anything that OpenAI achieves, their competitors achieve in less time, with less resources and investment. And when the day comes that OpenAI falls, the money lost will be much greater than that of the other LLM companies