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Re:AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point by 1024core on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:51PM (#41011042)
I don't know who these people are who can't even do basic arithmetic.

> an estimated annual revenue of $1,550 for 50,000 monthly page views.

> This is approximately ~$0.00022 earned per page view.

No, this is $0.002583 earned per page view, a ~12x difference. Looks like the author divided by 12 twice.

Re:AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point by latortuga on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:14PM (#41011347)
Snarky but possibly true reply: perhaps someone had AI ~write~ hallucinate this article for them.
Re:AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point by yard2010 on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:27PM (#41012065)
The answer is clear - a hallucinating AI wrote this post
Re:AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point by GaggiX on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:34PM (#41012129)
The post was probably written by a mere human (they do sometimes hallucinate quite badly).
Re:AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point by tempaccount420 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:30AM (#41015016)
Any self-respecting AI would not make a mistake like this. This is the work of a human.
Re:AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point by GaggiX on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:58PM (#41011137)
Well that's even better for the point of the article.
Re:AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point by ConnorCallahan on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:15PM (#41019430)
Wait, isn’t 1550/50000 = 0.031 ?