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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by conartist6 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @08:46AM (#46443992)
Experts making a specialized model isn't an example of an AI contributing value to society. All the value a model can offer comes from one of exactly two places: the person building the model, or the people the model trained on.

We know that the model training on the model training on the model leads to model collapse...

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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by __MatrixMan__ on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:55PM (#46446514)
Your word choice implies a very zero-sum perspective on value.

Value is determined by what we value, it's a choice. If a bunch of scientists value good approximations for how a protein will fold, and then a model generates more such things in a year than those scientists could make in a century, that's a lot of value. Not extracted from anyone, created.

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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by conartist6 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:56PM (#46447108)
Yes. Value created by the people who made the data the model trained on, and the people who ensured that the training created a good model. I'm just saying it's not magic, just another kind of high-level work that people do.
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