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So OpenAI are paying for software which leverages other LLMs written by their own LLM.
We live in a topsy turvy world.
"Sometimes the big fish isn't only the fish"
Years ago, I had a bug so bizarre I nearly convinced myself the machine was haunted. My mouse pointer started drifting—not randomly, but only when I pressed the arrow keys. Up arrow? Cursor nudged north. Down arrow? There it went again. I was convinced some accessibility setting or keyboard remap had gone haywire. I rebooted. I checked drivers. I even briefly entertained the idea that my codebase was cursed.
Three hours in, I realized the true culprit: MSPaint. I had opened it earlier, and because the canvas was selected, the arrow keys were actually moving the selection box—which, by delightful Windows design, also moved the mouse cursor. I wasn’t losing my mind. Just... slowly drawing rectangles in the background every time I hit an arrow key.
I closed MSPaint, and poof—my “haunting” ended. I haven’t trusted that application since. Great for pixel art, less great for your sanity.
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You and ChatGPT sound identical.
A large part of my listening on YouTube Music is going to a particular song or band I like and clicking "Radio", which generates a playlist of similar sounding songs. You can then fine tune it with a filter i.e "Popular songs, deep cuts" or specific elements of the song "More emo", "Slow paced" etc. This exposes me to a lot of new music and keeps it fresh and if I'm lucky I'll discover a new artist or song to add to my rotations.
You lose that.
A lot of these services overtime build mixes which takes your listening habits and tries to categorize them into specific mixes made up of your existing library & new music.
I don't browse any music forums and so apart from my favourite bands, I have no idea on when artists I like release new albums and would not encounter them on a self hosted solution, etc.
Of course lots of speculation, but I am not particularly worried by the fields we can wipe out in future with automation and AI.
Hmm, millions of humans are spending a bulk of their lives plugging away at numbers on a screen. We can replace this with an AI and free them up to do literally anything else.
No, let's not do that. Keep being slow ineffective calculators and lay on your death bed feeling FULFILLED!
"Reports showed me the absolute worst programmer on my team. Did I fire him? No. I actually gave him a 20% raise.
Do you know why? He was the best programmer on my team (in disguise)."
It's a browser.
The controversy came when it was found out they were inserting their own affiliate code into links. That's scummy.
There is a lot of elitism around Clojure and all of them are looking to throw down. Even your comment has already garnered 1 of them out of the shadows.