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0 points48terry1mo ago0 comments

And also: AI is basically the only thing anyone is talking about. Yeah, Uber existed and it's known about and was advertised and such. It has not overwhelmed every topic ever like the current LLM mandate has been. People are getting sit down and told they MUST engage with this stuff.

How has the sheer saturation of LLMs not resulted in profit? It has dominated the conversation, center stage, of every news outlet for like 4 years now. It is the most known-about thing currently out there.

And we haven't been able to convert that much captured attention into profitability yet? That seems... bad?

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dangus1mo ago

Right! I think the only example that comes to mind for me as far as “bled money for years and eventually became a cash cow” is YouTube. Most other ventures that bled money that long ended up dying.

Maybe Reddit is an example? But my impression is that they ran a modest operation before going public.

ChatGPT is the 5th most visited website in the world. Gemini.Google.com is ranked above amazon.com. Where is the profit?

bix61mo ago

But why would you make it profitable now? We are still in the early innings and its growth at all costs. Growing from sustainable cash flow isn’t fast enough for investors, they want HYPERGROWTH (now with RAWBERRY)

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