Is there a piefed specific client that isn’t the webapp? How do people commonly access the content?

Is there a client? Or does everyone just use the webapp?

Yeah, I did realize that the break even ones I think largely are using OpenAI as part or all of their capacity, so they probably aren’t really break even for that reason - OpenAI is subsidizing them.

I have a little perspective to offer on this:

One of the core points of the author’s argument is, “Generative AI providers are operating at a loss, and I don’t see how they could become profitable”, specifically calling out ‘where are the new customers’?

I work at a company that is a direct customer of OpenAI and we get real, useful output from it. If they were to double or even triple the price, I’m almost certain that we’d just pay it (as it’s I very cheap at the moment). I’ll admit I’m not actually running numbers, iirc several of the companies mentioned were near break even, so doubling revenue would make them very profitable.

So my argument here is that I don’t think they need new customers, they just need to raise prices. Launching with unprofitable prices and jacking them up later once people get a taste is part of the standard tech industry playbook and wouldn’t be the least bit surprising in this situation. The company I work for has only small integrations so far, but I can imagine that at some companies almost their entire service is based on using LLMs, in which case the providers would literally have the ability to charge whatever they want.

Also fwiw, I’m a gen ai hater, and wish it would collapse and go away, but I’m not entirely convinced by this guy’s argument, but maybe if I looked harder at the numbers it might become obvious that the price increases I’m suggesting still won’t cover investment expenditures.

What’s wild is that near the end of the sketch they say, “I can’t think of anything worse than a skull.” I’d say a noose is probably worse…

Aw man, at first I thought this was an Android desktop OS. Android being in Google’s pocket is trash, but you gotta admit the Android permissions system would be an enormous privacy/security upgrade over nearly all other Linux distros, especially factoring in ease of use/understandability (speaking as someone with a functional Qubes setup).

I’m with you. I love paint.net. For me it’s not even necessarily the feature set, but the fact that it starts up instantly unlike others. Most of the time I’m using it to make a quick meme and having to wait for something like GIMP to open makes me feel like it’s not worth making.

Mission Hill. It was 90s era animated sitcom that was taken off the air before the first season finished, resulting in the last few episodes never getting animated.

Today it stands as a really engaging period piece, and if you ever wanted to see Spongebob (Tom Kenny) as a flamboyant gay man or a violent teenage ne’er-do-well it’s well worth the seven or so episodes.

Damn, the is so sick… except for the missing jack. What a bummer :(

Character design on right is evocative of Yu Yu Hakusho. Or maybe it just looks like a young Genkai?

Amen. The layer system works the way my brain works. Top tier, hard to use anything else.

Description sounds like Saint Slime

Record of the Lodoss War mentioned 🙌

There is a better way! Ranked choice voting means no more voting for the lesser of two evils. Look into fo yourselves and others - vote to change the voting systems near you!

In these cases being granted citizenship for another country means gaining “dual citizenship”, I.E. he’s a citizen of both countries and thus still eligible for presidency in Argentina.

I’ve often that about that if I could design a house, I’d have a room just like this. Like there would be a section of the house that was tower like and the only way to get to the room at the top would be to take an exterior balcony-like-staircase from the second floor to the room in question - the sole room on the “third floor”.

There’s just something about a room like that that makes it fell so isolated, peaceful and serene. And the exterior access makes it feel like a little adventure getting there. Like if the weather were bad you might opt not to go there because it would mean gearing up to make the trip.

Takuya and Rika

Like… Like from… Digimon: Tamers?

I’ve recently started putting together a home studio and made the mistake of asking online what I should consider before painting my monitors. Nearly half of the people who responded said, “Don’t do it, it’ll ruin the resale value.” Like dude, I’m not here to be on a god damned gear treadmill. I’m here to make music. Gear is just a necessary evil to me and if I never have to buy monitors again I would be so happy. So, If I can get some extra joy out of them and make them mine, I’m gonna.

Hey, this is definitely getting really close. However, I think for this to work our phones would need to be connected to my Wireguard all the time, right?