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Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#31

I wonder how much money I could make making "GPTs" full time. Barrier to entry is nonexistent so I imagine highest revenue ones if this becomes a serious thing people use will be advertised externally or have some proprietary info/access.

I agree.

Anyone with factual data (proprietary or not) is now an input away to AI / GPTs.

Data (or a new foundational model) is now the moat.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#32
post #2

I have been utilising GPT to create my own app, and now openAI wants to be the only app that matters. I’m not sure whether I should be excited or not :/

What did you expect? Surely it was just an MVP, and you expected OpenAI to commoditize its complements? Right?

On the long run, if your idea or app can be expressed as a flavor of a general GPT, you will not be able to compete with the AI gorillas. The space for AI startups is with custom, highly niched data or capabilities, that cannot be found in a general corpus, or that you can uniquely generate or control.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#33

I wonder how much money I could make making "GPTs" full time. Barrier to entry is nonexistent so I imagine highest revenue ones if this becomes a serious thing people use will be advertised externally or have some proprietary info/access.

> I wonder how much money ...

I saw that announcement and my immediate thought was "God yet another thing passive income youtubers will be shilling soon"

In general, I was a little confused by this. Sam's demo of creating a GPT didn't seem particularly exciting as well.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#34

Is this basically them deploying fine tuned models? It wouldn't be very interesting to just be using custom prompts.

I don't know for sure but I'd bet BIG money that these do not include automatic fine-tuning, though I still understand them to be a bit more powerful than just "custom prompts" -- think templates, or sets of custom prompts for specific (sub-)situations.

This is the kind of feature that will prove to be a minor improvement for anyone on this forum, and a complete paradigm shift for the less technically-inclined. IMO.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

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post #2

I have been utilising GPT to create my own app, and now openAI wants to be the only app that matters. I’m not sure whether I should be excited or not :/

They will allow revenue sharing so then it's a matter of how many customers they'd be able to offer you for your app; and whether it makes sense for you to distribute through them or bypass them and distribute yourself.

This business model will only serve them in the long run. Luckily for us, open source llms are getting traction and we won't depend on "open"AI to implement features on our apps.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#38
post #33

I wonder how much money I could make making "GPTs" full time. Barrier to entry is nonexistent so I imagine highest revenue ones if this becomes a serious thing people use will be advertised externally or have some proprietary info/access.

> I wonder how much money ... I saw that announcement and my immediate thought was "God yet another thing passive income youtubers will be shilling soon" In general, I was a little confused by this. Sam's demo of creating a GPT didn't seem particularly exciting as well.

OpenAI in a weird way has mediocre marketing. The examples they use for Dalle-3 are way worse than the average ones I see people cooking up on Twitter/Reddit. They only seem to demo the most vaguely generic implementations of their app. Even their DevDay logo is just 4 lines of text.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#39

I wonder how much money I could make making "GPTs" full time. Barrier to entry is nonexistent so I imagine highest revenue ones if this becomes a serious thing people use will be advertised externally or have some proprietary info/access.

I bet if you combined GPT creation with Zapier integrations you could help a lot of people and companies.

Thoughts on Zapier trying to become OpenAI faster than OpenAPI can become Zapier? There will always be a long tail of APIs that folks want integrating, but the most popular APIs are perhaps only a few hundred in number (Google Calendar and Slack, for example).

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#40
post #16

So i guess the next wave of startups has been killed. I'm not even sure what kind of startup still makes sense as a gpt thin wrapper?

If your startup is just a thin wrapper for GPT, it's DOA regardless. Trivial moat is always a trivial moat.

You must use LLMs as a launching point to something else, some kind of 10x in a vertical.

Being able to "chat" is table stakes and worthless to you as a company by itself.

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