We have got to find a word for things that are plainly harmful yet advantageous to their perpetrators that's more descriptive than "smart..."

Agree. I didn't want to moralize, just wanted to point out it's a shrewd business move. It's rather anticompetitive, though that is hard to prove in such a dynamic market. Who knows, we may soon be calling it 'antitrust'.

For that you need 2 words: venture capital

Shrewd or cunning

capitalistic, monopolistic

Tactical

Uberly?

I prefer uber-esque

I prefer Webvan-esque. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan:

> The company's investors pressured it to grow very fast to obtain first-mover advantage. This rapid growth was cited as one of the reasons for the downfall of the company.

IMO, selling at a loss to gain market share only makes sense if there are network effects that lead to a winner-takes-all situation. Of which there are some for ChatGPT (training data when people press the thumbs up/down buttons), but is that sufficient?

Also useful for bootstrapping a dev ecosystem.

If engineers are getting into AI development through OpenAI, they're using tools and systems within the OpenAI ecosystem.

Daily on HN there's a post on some AI implementation faster than chatgpt. But my starting point is OpenAI. If you can capture the devs, especially at this stage, you get a force multiplier.

It's called "predatory pricing".

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

capitalism

Economists call this price dumping

anti-competitive predatory pricing

Yeah, if I was an owner or investor like Jasper.ai (AI written content generation SaaS) I'd be pretty worried right now.

Not very effective considering that it will be remade in open source 1-2 years from now.