Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree

Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by michaelbarton on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:20PM (#45859179)

Aren’t LLMs being used by business successfully in many “unsexy” domains like translation, sentiment analysis, and image recognition?

Though I do agree that many of the breathless claims that you can stop hiring or even layoff developers because of LLMs seem unsubstantiated

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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by layer8 on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:39PM (#45859338)

I wouldn't characterize that as “incredible commercial potential”. And especially in the case of translation, you save some of money, but also get poorer quality.

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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by michaelbarton on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:23PM (#45859648)

Speaking from experience I was recently in a tiny fountain pen shop in Sendai[0] where the owner doesn’t speak English and I don’t speak Japanese but we were able to talk for an hour or more about fountain pens and tomoe river paper alternatives using Google translate’s dialogue feature.

Maybe not massive commercial potential but it was pretty amazing and reminded me a bit of the Babel fish which use to seem like impossible sci-fi

[0]: https://share.google/64xTBRThXcFR72r3G

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