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by gitremote 1y ago
Yes, API pricing is usage based, but ChatGPT Pro pricing is a flat rate for a time period. The question is then whether SaaS companies paying for GPT API pricing are profitable if they charge their users a flat rate for a time period. If
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by gitremote 1y ago
These numbers are off. > $20/month ChatGPT Pro user: Heavy daily usage but token-limited ChatGPT Pro is $200/month and Sam Altman already admitted that OpenAI is losing money from Pro subscriptions in January 2025: "insane
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by gitremote 1y ago
I don't think the author meant they don't include /v1 in the endpoint in the beginning. The point is that you should do everything to avoid having a /v2, because you would have to maintain two versions for every bug fix,
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by gitremote 1y ago
For the vast majority of the situations in a English-speaking society, the term for that type of person is a "white supremacist". For example, a person who does Nazi salutes, or wants to update refugee policy so that the majority
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by gitremote 1y ago
"You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind." - Dun
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by gitremote 1y ago
> Not justifying it, but many applications consider the uniqueness of the URL enough protection to prevent discovery. Yes, that's why it's the #1 most common web security vulnerability in production code: https://owa
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by gitremote 1y ago
... in the same way that women's shelters are common but men's shelters are rare looks like a gender war.
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by gitremote 1y ago
This suggests the marketing professors have an incorrectly optimistic view of LLMs, and that's why they were surprised that those who understood AI mechanics embraced it less.
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Why Understanding AI Doesn't Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It(hbr.org)
3 points by gitremote 1y ago|3 comments
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by gitremote 1y ago
When an end user asks ChatGPT a question, the chatbot application sends the system prompt, user prompt, and context as input tokens to an inference API, and the LLM generates output tokens for the inference API response. GPT API inference c
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TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data, licenses(techcrunch.com)
5 points by gitremote 1y ago|0 comments
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by gitremote 1y ago
Currently, they lose more money per inference than they make for Pro subscriptions, because they are essentially renting out their service each month instead of charging for usage (per token).
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by gitremote 1y ago
Inference contributes to their losses. In January 2025, Altman admitted they are losing money on Pro subscriptions, because people are using it more than they expected (sending more inference requests per month than would be offset by the m
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by gitremote 1y ago
> Protip: look for an Asian market in your area for food. ... Discovering the Asian market has been one of the best financial things to happen to me. Whenever I see this protip, I feel bad for struggling Asians getting validated that the
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by gitremote 1y ago
"The Cloud Act is a law that gives the US government authority to obtain digital data held by US-based tech corporations irrespective of whether that data is stored on servers at home or on foreign soil. It is said to compel these comp
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by gitremote 1y ago
The servers are for professors and graduate students, so this IT guy wants to block PhD students from doing AI research, demanding that they explain their cron jobs to him, because he thinks he can optimize them and save a few bucks.
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by gitremote 1y ago
"I'm doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it's vibe physics." - Travis Kalanick, founder of Uber https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-c...
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by gitremote 1y ago
> Sex is decoupled from birth rates, due to access to 100% effective birth control (IUD/morning after pill/abortion). In 2022, the US overturned the constitutional right to abortion. Abortion is now outlawed in 17 US states, re
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by gitremote 1y ago
I assume questions to explain the code would be extremely specific about why you did something on a specific line, or why you chose to design this part that way instead of another, to detect plagiarism and vibe coding, not a request for a p
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by gitremote 1y ago
How would someone explain code that was vibe-coded?
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by gitremote 1y ago
Sure. Foundation models aren't fine-tuned, and companies fine-tune foundation models to optimize user experience. So they are modeling the animal brain on an even more specific type of LLM that happens to be related to being a consumer
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by gitremote 1y ago
The statement was "AI frenzy almost convinced me that sleep was the training of our neural network with all the prompts of the day." Prompts are specific to LLMs. Most neural networks don't have prompts. Additionally, prompts
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by gitremote 1y ago
Indeed. Animals without linguistic ability (like fruit flies) need sleep, but after ChatGPT's release in 2022, now tech bros think LLMs specifically might model the animal brain in general because of anthropocentrism and anthropomorphi
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by gitremote 1y ago
"Elections in the People's Republic of China occur under a one-party authoritarian political system controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Direct elections, except in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and M
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by gitremote 1y ago
How would you know? In countries without free speech where anti-government speech is illegal, the only legal speech is pro-government or neutral.
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by gitremote 1y ago
He's an earth sciences geek, so he prefers natural diamonds' relationship with the earth. This aesthetic is irrelevant for most people.
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by gitremote 1y ago
PBS Eons has an episode on this: When the Earth Was Purple https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IIA-k_bBcL0 (This is great science channel. PBS should have continued to receive federal funding.)
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by gitremote 1y ago
It's only "ChatGPT-like AI" in that it uses transformers. It's not an LLM. It's not trained on the Internet.
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by gitremote 1y ago
I don't care about the company and I'm not defending it. I don't have sympathy for the bad faith gossipers getting doxxed. But there are going to be legitimate users who gravitated towards the app for the real safety need. Do
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by gitremote 1y ago
> An irony in this conversation is how normalized it is for women to be concerned about men as a demographic when it's only a small minority that inflict harm. The same hypothetical 5% can inflict harm to multiple women, that's

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