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Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
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Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
#22They don't even hide it. $1 for the first year. Then, extortionate pricing, if sama's dealings with Oracle are any indication.
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#23so how did they win this tender? was there a tender at all? or it is not a contract yet with USA gov?
imho, Google and MSFT has to step-up and likely will offer a better service.
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#24$1 for the next year and once you are embedded, jack up prices. That’s not exactly a new trick.
Lots of cool training data to collect too.
Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
#25A Trojan horse if I’ve ever seen one.
What is the strategy, in your view? Maybe something like this? -- 1. All government employees get access to ChatGPT 2. ChatGPT increasingly becomes a part of people's daily workflows and cognitive toolkit. 3. As the price increases, ChatGPT will be too embedded to roll back. 4. Over time, OpenAI becomes tightly integrated with government work and "too big to fail": since the government relies on OpenAI, OpenAI must s…
6. openAi continues to train "for alignment" and gets significant influence over the federal government workers who are using the app and toolkit, and thus the workflows and results thereof. eg. sama gets to decide who gets social sercurity and who gets denied
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#26$1 per federal agency almost sounds too good to be true. The bigger test, though, will be how agencies handle issues like hallucinations and multimodal integration at scale. Interested to see what kind of safeguards or human-in-the-loop systems they’ll actually deploy.
The catch is “for the next year”. It’s going to cost us billions, just watch.
Is OpenAI making any money? I have read that they are burning money faster than they make it.
I think you are correct: We will see a big price spike in a few years.
Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
#27They don't even hide it. $1 for the first year. Then, extortionate pricing, if sama's dealings with Oracle are any indication.
what happened there with Oracle?
Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
#28$1 per federal agency almost sounds too good to be true. The bigger test, though, will be how agencies handle issues like hallucinations and multimodal integration at scale. Interested to see what kind of safeguards or human-in-the-loop systems they’ll actually deploy.
> how agencies handle issues like hallucinations That's the crux. They won't. We'll repeatedly find ourselves in the absurd situation where reality and hallucination clash. Except, with the full weight of the US government behind the hallucination, reality will lose out every time. Expect to see more headlines where people, companies, and organizations are expected to conform to hallucinations not the facts. It's abo…
Makes me think of an episode of Better off Ted, when the company sends out a memo that employees must NOW use offensive language (instead of NOT).
Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
#29They don't even hide it. $1 for the first year. Then, extortionate pricing, if sama's dealings with Oracle are any indication.
what happened there with Oracle?
What hasn't happened with Oracle...
For instance, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618152
Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
#30Right now AI is in the grow at all costs phase. So for the most part access to AI is way cheaper than it will be in the next 5-10 years. All these companies will eventually have to turn a profit. Once that happens, they'll be forced to monetize in whatever way they can. Enterprise will obviously have higher subscriptions. But I'm predicting for non-enterprise that eventually ads will be added in some way. What's scary is if some of these ads will even be presented as ads, or if they'll be disguised as normal responses from the agent. Fun times ahead! Can't wait!