Comment by anigbrowl
3 days ago
I'm inclined to agree. I ran across a picture of Sam Altman's face combined with Elizabeth Holmes' hairstyle the other day, and imho it was providing a significant premium to the usual 1000 words:picture exchange rate.
For all the criticism that can reasonably be leveled at OpenAI, at least they have a real, working, powerful product, unlike Holmes.
In fact that seems to be key to the most successful 21st century grifts: build a pile of nonsense around real products to inflate valuations. All the nonsense that Altman, Amodei, and Musk spout is to stoke the fires of FOMO and blow hot air into the bubbles.