• norimee@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Ah, I see you got that all wrong.

    Open IA AI uses that content to generate billions in profit on the backs of The People. The Internet Archive just does it for the good of The People.

    We can’t have that. “Good for The People” is not how the economy works, pal. We need profit and exploitation for the world to work…

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        Sounds like they are operating the same as all the other big tech companies then

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          Eh? That article says nothing about their profit margins. Today they have something like $3.5B in ARR (not really, that’s annualized from their latest peak, in Feb they had like $2B ARR). Meanwhile they have operating costs over $7B. Meaning they are losing money hand over fist and not making a profit.

          I’m not suggesting anything else, just that they are not profitable and personally I don’t see a road to profitability beyond subsidizing themselves with investment.

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            It’s in the first bloody paragraph. 😮‍💨

            OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it’s supposedly “impossible” for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them.

            And if you follow the link the title of the article says it all:

            #OpenAI is set to see its valuation at $80 billion—making it the third most valuable startup in the world

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              I take it you don’t understand how startups work?

              OpenAI is not making any profit and is losing money hand over fist today. Valuation and raising investment rounds isn’t profit.

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      I think you accidentally swapped OpenAI and Open IA which happens to initialize Internet Archive, a little confusing.