The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

Post by otabdeveloper4 » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 12:11 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #217

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> We're not talking about fidget spinners. We're talking about Hitler memes instead? I don't understand your feigned outrage. The actual valid commercial use case for generative images hasn't been found yet. (No, making blog spam prettier is not a good use case.)

You're right, nothing has value unless someone figures out how to make money with it. Except OpenAI, apparently, because the fact that people buy ChatGPT to make images doesn't seem to count as a commercial use case.

Post by lofaszvanitt » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 12:31 PM UTC

isx726552 wrote: post #149

> I’ve been feeling pretty good about my benchmark! It should stay useful for a long time... provided none of the big AI labs catch on. > And then I saw this in the Google I/O keynote a few weeks ago, in a blink and you’ll miss it moment! There’s a pelican riding a bicycle! They’re on to me. I’m going to have to switch to something else. Yeah this touches on an issue that makes it very difficult to have a discussion…

Post by otabdeveloper4 » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #222

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OpenAI is not profitable and we don't know if it ever will be.

Have we shifted the goalposts from "something people will pay for" to "needs to be profitable even with massive R&D" then?

Post by haiku2077 » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 3:32 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #215

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Not sure if this is sarcasm or sincere, but I will take it as sincere haha. I came back to work from parental leave and everyone had that same Studio Ghiblized image as their Slack photo, and I had no idea why. It turns out you really can unplug from social media and not miss anything of value: if it’s a big enough deal you will find out from another channel.

Why does everyone keep calling news "social media"? Have I missed a trend? Knowing what my friend Steve is up to is social media, knowing what AI is up to is news.

Post by stavros » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 3:52 PM UTC

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #228

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Except lots of people are paying for it. I'll refer you to the other post on the front page for the calculation that OpenAI would have to get just an extra $10/yr from their users to break even.

Your response reminds me of that joke about selling a dollar bill for ninety cents.