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It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Re: It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Post by wahnfrieden »

barrenko wrote: post #18
kllrnohj wrote: post #13

Platforms usually deliver significant value that is hard to replicate. OpenAI doesn't have any such thing. It's trivially replaced, and there's many competitors already. OpenAI is ahead of the curve, but they don't seem to have any particular way to do sticky capture. Migrating to a different LLM is an afternoon's work at most, not nearly the complexity of porting an app between OS' or creating a robust hardware driv…

You could say the same thing about Facebook...

Not at all, because it is not easy to replicate and move its social graph

Re: It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Post by nakamoto_damacy »

graeme wrote: post #15
nakamoto_damacy wrote: post #3

Whenever I see a post at #1 with not comment, I know it's been artificially pumped to the top. So many people upvoted but not a single comment yet. Let there be some comments! lol. OpenAI is a geopolitically important play besides being a tech startup so it gets pumped in funding and in PR, to show that we're still leading the world. But that premise is largely hallucinated.

It's easy to write a cynical reaction, but the simplest explanation is usually true. In this case, it's just a very good headline. I read Stratechery. Ben's articles are what he makes for public consumption. This weekly summary thing is a new roundup for subscribers, and just happens to be public, and if you're not a subscriber you can't follow the links. If Ben could choose something to be #1 on Hacker News it would…

Sorry, not buying it.

Re: It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Post by pixl97 »

barrenko wrote: post #18
kllrnohj wrote: post #13

Platforms usually deliver significant value that is hard to replicate. OpenAI doesn't have any such thing. It's trivially replaced, and there's many competitors already. OpenAI is ahead of the curve, but they don't seem to have any particular way to do sticky capture. Migrating to a different LLM is an afternoon's work at most, not nearly the complexity of porting an app between OS' or creating a robust hardware driv…

You could say the same thing about Facebook...

I mean, technically no, FB has a network effect of the other people on it either being the people you want to talk to, or the people you want to advertise to.

Re: It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Post by mips_avatar »

I wonder if OpenAI's app platform is going to be more like Windows (most economic value goes to user and app partners) or like Facebook (most economic value goes to facebook, app makers get screwed. I mean Microsoft acted badly towards a lot of partners, but it was a true platform.

Re: It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Post by Mistletoe »

kllrnohj wrote: post #13

Platforms usually deliver significant value that is hard to replicate. OpenAI doesn't have any such thing. It's trivially replaced, and there's many competitors already. OpenAI is ahead of the curve, but they don't seem to have any particular way to do sticky capture. Migrating to a different LLM is an afternoon's work at most, not nearly the complexity of porting an app between OS' or creating a robust hardware driv…

I actually prefer Google Gemini. 2.5 is free and works awesome for what I need AI for. It just made my resume I uploaded immeasurably better last night.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1mkj4zi/chatgpt_pro_g...

Re: It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Post by warkdarrior »

barrenko wrote: post #18
kllrnohj wrote: post #13

Platforms usually deliver significant value that is hard to replicate. OpenAI doesn't have any such thing. It's trivially replaced, and there's many competitors already. OpenAI is ahead of the curve, but they don't seem to have any particular way to do sticky capture. Migrating to a different LLM is an afternoon's work at most, not nearly the complexity of porting an app between OS' or creating a robust hardware driv…

You could say the same thing about Facebook...

FB has network effects (your friends/neighbors/etc are there). When I use ChatGPT, I don't care whether anyone else uses it as well.

Re: It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Post by mips_avatar »

nakamoto_damacy wrote: post #3

Whenever I see a post at #1 with not comment, I know it's been artificially pumped to the top. So many people upvoted but not a single comment yet. Let there be some comments! lol. OpenAI is a geopolitically important play besides being a tech startup so it gets pumped in funding and in PR, to show that we're still leading the world. But that premise is largely hallucinated.

I mean it usually means dang thought the piece deserved a conversation. Which in this case I think it does.

Re: It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

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Post by [deleted] »

kllrnohj wrote: post #13

Platforms usually deliver significant value that is hard to replicate. OpenAI doesn't have any such thing. It's trivially replaced, and there's many competitors already. OpenAI is ahead of the curve, but they don't seem to have any particular way to do sticky capture. Migrating to a different LLM is an afternoon's work at most, not nearly the complexity of porting an app between OS' or creating a robust hardware driv…

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