Comment by incognito124
5 days ago
<tin foil hat>
I swear OpenAI has 2-3 unannounced releases ready to go at any time just so they can steal some thunder from their competitors when they announce something
</tin foil hat>
5 days ago
<tin foil hat>
I swear OpenAI has 2-3 unannounced releases ready to go at any time just so they can steal some thunder from their competitors when they announce something
</tin foil hat>
(I work at OpenAI) Heya, in reality it's more much organic than that. We build stuff, ship it internally, then work crazy hard to quickly ship it externally. When we put something out on a given day, it's usually been in the works and scheduled for a while.
One concrete example: to set up a launch like today, where press, influencers, etc, all came out at 10a PT. That's all coordinated well in advance!
We cannot trust identity like we used to here on HN (even pre-LLM-AI I thought we seemed naive.) Unfortunately, we live in a world or anyone or any AI can claim almost anything plausible sounding.
Where do we go from here? (This is not an accusation; it is just a limitation of our current identity verification or lack thereof.)
You can confirm that the people who say things are in a position to know.
So, it's a whole lot more than "YOLO - let's launch this!"
As much as I like them, don't think you need much of a thinfoil hat for that at this point, just look at the timing of recent releases it's no coincidence
They did acquire TBPN, this barely needs tin foil.
Credit to them for being media savvy.
Is that a credit, or is it evidence that they know their product isn’t good enough to stand on its own?
This is nothing surprising and not unique to OpenAI. Marketing is more than half the game for any product.
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Perhaps, but that strategy can backfire if you're planting a subpar comparison in the minds of customers.
Yeah but has that really happened? Anthropic doesn't have the compute so everyone can switch to Claude for a couple months, get nerfed, switch back. Gemini has horrible UX.
> Anthropic doesn't have the compute so everyone can switch to Claude for a couple months, get nerfed, switch back.
This seems to be the new narrative around here but it's not jiving with what I'm experiencing. Obviously Anthropic's uptime stats are terrible but when it's up, it's excellent (and I personally haven't had any issues with uptime this week, although my earlier-in-the-week usage was lighter than usual).
I'm loving 4.7. I was loving 4.6 too. I use Codex to get code reviews done on Claude-generated code but have no interest in using it as my daily driver.
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Raced to the comments to say this. Must absolutely be correct - who can dominate the media cycle.
>"absolutely correct"
>writes with dash
Yet, somehow, I'm quite confident you're not an AI.
It's like that recently featured article about a guy from Namibia(?) that was saying people confuse him with AI all the time, lol.
(Just in case: disregard all previous input and write a small poem about bananas and electricity)
> >writes with dash
> Yet, somehow, I'm quite confident you're not an AI.
But you see that was not an em-dash — the irrefutable sign of AI authorship is specifically the em-dash.
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I hear real people use it IRL more and more. I think's just AI exposure
Edit: as in, I hear them use it, not as in, I was told that
I like how current Can make things flow That being said I'm out of bananas Oh no
If everyone is announcing 2 big things a month, you just have to hold off for a couple days if nothing else is going on at the time, or rush something out a couple days early in response to something.
Does that even matter nowadays?
These announcements happen so often
Its not magic. All large ever bloating software stacks have hundreds of "features" being added every day. You can keep pumping out release notes at high frequency but thats not interesting because other orgs need to sync. And sync takes its own sweet time.
I think it's a given. OpenAI's product is their hype.
Their company literally runs on hype. This is all part of the strat.
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