OpenAI Finally Achieved AGI: Ad-Generated Income

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A screenshot of a tweet from Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos, verified) on X.com that reads: 'OpenAI has finally achieved AGI (Ad-Generated Income).' The post features Pedro Domingos' profile picture showing a man with gray hair. The joke redefines the acronym AGI -- which in AI circles stands for 'Artificial General Intelligence,' the holy grail of AI research -- to instead mean 'Ad-Generated Income,' sarcastically commenting on OpenAI's increasing commercialization and monetization strategy through advertising rather than achieving the revolutionary technical milestone they originally promised

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick OpenAI's real breakthrough: achieving O(n) scaling of revenue per hallucination

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

OpenAI's real breakthrough: achieving O(n) scaling of revenue per hallucination
@hoodiepaws 5mo

what did they do?
1. dev_meme 5mo
  
  f2p users now have ads
  
  @hoodiepaws 5mo
  
  huh! i see
@H3R3T1C 5mo

Approve....
@razv1el 5mo

They need to slowly start monetizing it, cant run a business on a loss forever
1. @RiedleroD 5mo
  
  …the ads aren't gonna do much for that. this isn't much more than posturing "look, this is how we're gonna make money", but it won't even come close to covering server costs…
  
  @abel1502 5mo
  
  They just have to cram more and more ads into it until it does. I mean, that's how youtube does it, so it must be a good strategy)
  
  @RiedleroD 5mo
  
  youtube still doesn't publish profitability figures, so I doubt they'd be long-term viable if it wasn't for google keeping it around for data-hoarding, PR and propaganda purposes
  
  @RiedleroD 5mo
  
  AND you need to remember that hosting a video encoding and distribution platform is still much much cheaper than running an AI service
  
  @abel1502 5mo
  
  No-no, of course. I was being sarcastic. I do believe squeezing users for profits at their expense is unsustainable in the long run
  
  @RiedleroD 5mo
  
  ah my b then
  
  @qtsmolcat 5mo
  
  Depends on what advertisers will pay TBH
  
  @RiedleroD 5mo
  
  good point actually, knowing how hated AI is (and companies do know this, they just don't admit it) there's not gonna be a lot of companies willing to pay good money for ad spaces there
  
  dev_meme 5mo
  
  So I was doubting this point of view but wanted to wait a little bit
  
  dev_meme 5mo
  
  And currently they have highest price on ads, its ~60$ CPM / 1k views
  
  dev_meme 5mo
  
  Which is about highest prices per mile I have even seen
  
  @RiedleroD 5mo
  
  the hell. I'll never understand ad firms…