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How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise

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387 points reaperducer | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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throwaway106382 ◴[31 Oct 25 14:11 UTC] No.45772180[source]▶
Isn't paying a company to dig a hole who then pays you the same amount to fill said hole illegal?
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chermi ◴[31 Oct 25 15:06 UTC] No.45772818[source]▶
Yes, but what does that have to do with this situation? The hole served no purpose. The companies are using the GPUs.
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brazukadev ◴[31 Oct 25 15:11 UTC] No.45772901[source]▶
99% of code I generated using genAI served no purpose at the end of the day
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1. chermi ◴[31 Oct 25 15:29 UTC] No.45773174[source]▶
Ok. Maybe use it better? Or don't use it at all. Doesn't mean it's not being used to some end, unlike a hole.

Keep in mind also that the models are going to continue improving, if only on cost. Just a significant cost reduction allows for more "thinking" mode use.

Most of the reports about how useless LLMs are were from older models being used by people that don't know how to use LLMs. I'm not someone that thinks they're perfect or even great yet, but their not dirt.