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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by londons_explore on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:48AM (#37643758)
Emailing users when a new feature is enabled for their account isn't even the kind of thing that would distract an existing very busy developer.

You could literally hire an entirely new guy, give him instructions to build such an email system, and let him put the right triggers on the user account permissions database to send out the right emails at the right time.

And then, when it's built, you can start adding more features like sending the emails only when demand is low and/or at times of day when you get the best click through rate. And then next you can start measuring the increase in revenue from sending those emails.

Before long, you have a whole marketing and comms team. Which you probably want as a big company anyway.

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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by hombre_fatal on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:14AM (#37644116)
The peanut gallery could (and does) say this about 1000 little features that 1000 different people claim to be so necessary that OpenAI is incompetent for not having, yet none of those people agree that those other features are priorities.
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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by ZiiS on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:33AM (#37644465)
They could hire 1000 new developers a month and still be understaffed vs any company in history with thier valuation.
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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by sebzim4500 on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:25AM (#37645380)
The fact that they are so succesful despite their low headcount is an argument that there are advantages to keeping the headcount low.

I'm sure we've all seen companies grow too fast become less productive than when there were a ten person startup.

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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by mattkrause on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:09AM (#37644038)
Heck, dogfood your own product and hire someone to ask ChatGTP to do it!
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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by martingalex2 on Monday September 25, 2023 @12:13PM (#37646248)
Why isn't GPT4 running the company and handling these marketing missteps? j/k
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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by _justinfunk on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:53PM (#37647889)
We don't have evidence that this isn't the case
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