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[–] [S] 124 points 4 days ago (33 children)

OpenAI promised investors an AI gold rush. Now its projected annual revenue is reportedly $20 billion below earlier expectations. That’s not a rounding error: that’s an entire business empire missing from the spreadsheet. Silicon Valley keeps calling it a revolution, but increasingly it looks like a trillion dollar game of musical chairs, with investors hoping the music never stops.

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  • [–] 46 points 4 days ago (10 children)

    Maybe he could sleep in the factory for a few weekends? P

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  • [–] 39 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Quit ordering the avocado toast.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    I always think it's funny how millennials got shit for avocado toast, yet it was my boomer parents who introduced it to me.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    when I was a boy (GenX), avocados were so cheap, they almost gave them away

    my mom complained one time when they were 25c

    one of my friends that grew up in California had a tree in his back yard and he never purchased one until he moved to Washington State in his 20s

    The fact that it became a target for attacking millennials is so crazy. That people took it seriously for a bit is laughable. To this day my wife and I make jokes that it costs a new mortgage to have one.

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  • I am also Generation X.

    I come from Australia.

    Australia went from being a really easy country to live in where everything was just super cheap, to being one of the most expensive countries in the world where real estate is just out of reach for anyone, and particularly the young people.

    That avocado meme came from an Australian politician who tried to shame young people and tell them that if they would just stop eating their smashed avo breakfast that they could afford a mortgage.

    This is maybe 10 or 15 years ago. I can't remember exactly.

    This was the time when the shift went from Australia being relatively cheap to becoming crazy expensive, and it was quite insightful of him to do that, but also an asshole move to try and shame the young people.

    Somehow it has gained traction and become a worldwide thing, but that is the history of it.

    Some asshole politician telling young people if they would just stop having a little bit of nice time for themselves every now and then they could afford a mortgage, which was absolutely rubbish. Not true at all, and it's gotten even worse since.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    My brother worked at an avocado packing plant and he would bring me a BOX of ripe avocados that were too ripe to send to market.

    We had to eat those NOW. All the FREE avocados I can eat. Good times.

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  • We had an avocado tree in the backyard growing up. It was so large that it hung quite a ways over the roof, which had terracotta shingles.

    If we didn't pull the ripe avocados off the tree it would sound like a small bomb going off every time one dropped and hit the roof, which usually happened early in the morning for some reason.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Its a trillion dollar game of musical chairs with roughly 8.3 billion people playing and only a few thousand chairs.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    That’s just life you’re describing. Life in capitalism, that is.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    Nah, far from everyone wants to be a trillionaire, nor a billionaire. Sure most would want financial independence, but not a lot more than that

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    Ahh but you are falling into a common fallacy, you probably think that because there is enough money to go around everyone should have a enough to meet their needs, then the excess can be an incentive for people who make outsized contributions to society, like a not sociopathic member of the human race.

    The bloodsucking leech class view the existence of other people with needs as a personal insult. They feel every cent of money should be theirs personally, or as a barely acceptable compromise maybe shared around an "elite" class.

    If Bezos for instance could have all the money and just issue Amazon Bucks™ based on how useful you are to him he would love that.

    Honestly the reason we know Elon isn't a real gamer is that he doesn't have a bunch of four "agents" in trenchcoats with neuralinks and miniguns running around cities as he directs them to from an airship overhead. Otherwise that game would be as close to a masturbatory fantasy as someone who can't get hard after all the Special K would get.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    And even the fifty billions may be inflated, as it is "annualized" revenue which can mean "we took a period of peak usage and generalized it to a year"

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Didn't Anthropic calculate it based on the best day and multiplying by 365?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    This account reeks of clanker. Are people just okay with that or am I missing something?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago

    Don't have the energy to look into the account itself, but this comment does have that "it's not just x it's y" stank. It's everywhere nowadays, it's fucking exhausting.
    In blog posts, in news articles, YouTube videos and now in fucking lemmy comments. Disgusting.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (3 children)

    Why do you sound like the House of El?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

    It's an LLM adbot, or, at best, someone having LLM craft all of their comments and posts.

    The accounts profile heavily advertises services for LLM adbots covertly advertising to people using social media.

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