> They literally did change the world.

Yep. Thanks to OpenAI's manipulations, RAM prices are so high that dozens of markets are at risk. Possibly for years.

I could live w/o the changes they've brought.

ref: https://bizety.com/2025/12/28/the-dirty-dram-deal-how-openai...

The most profound way the world has been changed is the all out attack on labor. It doesn't matter if he says he wants to help people if his actions are and have been to hurt them as effectively and thoroughly as his station allows.

GPT is the product-ified version of text transformers, which OpenAI didn't invent or really even contribute to the discovery of.

The world changed with Attention is All You Need, and OpenAI was just an early adopter. The biggest thing OpenAI contributed to the broader industry was their API schema.

You must sure live in a bubble.. Do you think ChatGPT has changed things for the majority of people who live on this planet? It has not.

> The world was one way before ChatGPT, and another way after.

If you narrow the scope of "world" to "tech world." In the overwhelming majority of every other sector and profession the impact has been zero. In most non-English speaking parts of the world the impact has been zero.

> It's a factual statement.

The world was one way before Marvel superhero movies and a another way after. That's a factual statement. Did we lose track of value?