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Comment by atleastoptimal

7 hours ago

They didn't overestimate the interest. ChatGPT is extremely popular and notable.

>The tech industry doesn't speak for the entire planet

Of course they don't, but they are still allowed to make a product, and pivot if there's no consumer demand. However there is huge consumer and business demand for AI so they are justified in making the investments they are.

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cryo32  7 hours ago

Not quite. They don't operate like that.

It is not ok to lobby and manipulate governments for fiscal policy changes to write off the costs and risks on the general public.

We MUST be entirely insulated from their failure as society. If they can't raise the capital for the product then they should fail quietly and insignificantly which is not what is going to happen at the moment.

  • atleastoptimal  7 hours ago

    They are having no problems raising capital. People are offering up their homes to get Anthropic stock.

    >It is not ok to lobby and manipulate governments for fiscal policy changes to write off the costs and risks on the general public.

    How are they doing this? What are you referring to?

  • CamperBob2  7 hours ago

    It is not ok to lobby and manipulate governments for fiscal policy changes to write off the costs and risks on the general public.

    Right now they have to lobby and manipulate the government just to keep from being shut down on a mad king's whim. A mad king elected and re-elected by the same morons who now demand a say in how AI is built and used. No, thanks.

    Government is not the solution. Government is the problem. The Republicans told us that, and they were right, just not in the way they meant.

hk__2  7 hours ago

> ChatGPT is extremely popular

Citation needed. Most people use it once a while but not daily; they tried it once and played a bit with it but then forgot about it because it’s not clear what they should use it for.