OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium

Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by jasonhansel on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:30PM (#34370925)

Remember OpenAI's original mission statement?

> OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.

Let's just say that their goals have obviously changed.

edit: As with SBF, longtermism provides an excellent cover.

Source: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by unnouinceput on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:44PM (#34371119)

The answer (or problem, depending on your point of view) is money. Remember Google's "Don't be evil"? Yeah, me neither.

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by wendyshu on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:47PM (#34371180)

There are two OpenAIs. OpenAI LP is for-profit, OpenAI Inc. isn't.

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by 30minAdayHN on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:47PM (#34371190)

But aren’t they also burning like $3M or something everyday?

Maybe wishful, but I hope this is to offset the burn rather than make profits. I was worried that they would kill chatGPT because of the burn rate.

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by anthropodie on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:02PM (#34371429)

> $3M per day

That figure really is eye watering like Sam said. Any chance we might be able to reduce that cost? It must be the power costs right? The hardware is one time cost I assume. Why not power it over renewables?

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by drexlspivey on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:09PM (#34372411)

They don't own the hardware, it's running on Azure

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by anthropodie on Saturday January 14, 2023 @04:28AM (#34378745)

Of course that makes sense.

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by ianzakalwe on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:01PM (#34371424)

Atm they have somewhat unlimited credit on Azure, how long it will last is hard to say.

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by beepbooptheory on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:53PM (#34371297)

Its genius marketing honestly. What other company has basically entire 3rd party subreddits dedicated to defending their products as if its an epoch-defining moment? People will pay whatever for it out of a delusion of moral necessity at this point.

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by kunai on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:32PM (#34375384)

Tesla and SpaceX come to mind. Or Apple.

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by sebzim4500 on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:56PM (#34371344)

I agree that OpenAI's mission statement has always been complete horseshit, but they need to generate revenue eventually or they will run out of money.

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Re:OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium by jasonhansel on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:58PM (#34372266)

It's not like they're going to use any of that additional revenue to suddenly start achieving their original mission. So they won't accomplish the stated mission either way.

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