They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition • Hacker News Board

Re: They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition

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Post by teitoklien » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 11:54 AM UTC

Yizahi wrote: post #59

teitoklien wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here, Youtube and Social Media algorithms driven by outrage to boost statistics, has made it unbearable for me to watch news or read it online, everything is framed and created with maximum outrage in mind. I added a DNS level blocker on all news app and restricted youtube itself to stop myself from watching news no matter what, and I only use chatgpt advanced voice mode now and sometimes perplexity pro to get m…

I read comments like these and feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Alice in Wonderland moment, truly. Like, we are all engineers here, even if just a little. Willingly and knowingly constraining your information intake to a random character generator is a bold move. Incomprehensible for me, but definitely bold :) .

I know it’s controversial i know sometimes it’s inaccurate i honestly don’t care anymore i just don’t want the outrage inducing news content / videos / etc.

News is no longer the same everything is structured to maximize clicks , reactions, etc. Most news is misinformation or ideologically slanted anyways i just ask it to curate from feeds im interested in now, ive shifted to it only a few weeks ago, honestly its not as bad as people here are commenting it out to be.

i get it sounds dystopian but so does what i used to do previously. I dont need to know everything about everything, business & tech news i still read and watch myself as it tends to be fairly pleasant and inviting.

For me this is how the cons compare:

- Occasional inaccuracy from AI summaries - Missing some nuance - Imperfect information filtering > perfect exposure to toxic information delivery

I didn’t want to make this change i had to for my mental health sorry. Chatgpt can hallucinate a ton , claude is way more accurate and fair , i experiment with both.

Re: They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition

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Post by 999900000999 » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 1:26 PM UTC

Yizahi wrote: post #60

999900000999 wrote: post #45

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Chat GPT likes to make up things. It told me the other day that on a multiple hard drive/SSD system I could set secure boot on each drive independently. Of course this is nonsense, since secure boot is set in the BIOS. Whatever, Chat GPT got it's engagement metrics. I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM. It's still at the level of a…

> I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM. I strongly suspect this has already happened, possibly even multiple times. Some inbred oil sheikh fatfingering some insane sum of money because "the computer told me, and computers are always correct" is completely believable scenario. Now that I think about it, doesn't Line city fits it per…

>Some inbred oil sheikh fatfingering some insane sum of money because "the computer told me, and computers are always correct" is completely believable scenario.

No need to degrade people, if anything the highest class with hop on the AI train. Why trust an expensive human when an LLM will give you unlimited "advice" ?

LLMs can serve as a fall guy, but what's the old IBM quote. Something like a computer will never be responsible for an executive decision.

Then again LLMS making stupid mistakes is the only thing keeping most of us employed

Re: They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition

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Post by renegade-otter » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 5:55 AM UTC

9cb14c1ec0 wrote: post #9

> I suspect we can design a very interesting new kind of financial instrument for finance and compute that the world has not yet figured it out Hmm, can't figure out why this statement makes me think of Enron. After all, OpenAI certainly isn't trying to do massive infrastructure build outs while struggling with a relatively limited cash flow, or anything like that.

The phrase "financial instrument" never came up in the context of a scheme, I believe.