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   esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 03:54:29 JST esmevane, sorry

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   • Marco Rogers

   @polotek My strong hunch was that Altman has been angling to embed OpenAI in a position where it can get sort of an unbounded amount of funding by becoming a government vendor.

   I'm guessing that since it seems like Musk just bought his way into the oval office, and has a grudge against Altman, even if my hunch was right, that play might be evaporating.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 03:54:30 JST Marco Rogers

     ChatGPT is still wildly unprofitable. They're losing money at an exponential rate. Last estimate I read is that they have something like 10 million paying users. This says they have 300 million active users. We should expect to start seeing aggressive attempts to monetize the vast majority of non-paying users. I don't think making them pay directly is viable. Maybe ChatGPT will start returning ads as part of it's answers? 😂
     https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313097/chatgpt-300-million-weekly-users