The logic is that if they don't do it then Meta or some other company will & they have decided it's better that they do it b/c they are the better, more righteous, & moral people. But the main issue is I don't understand how they went from solving general intelligence to becoming an ad sponsored synthetic media company without anyone noticing.
It's because AI is just software, and like most software, it's shit. Almost a net negative for people. Obviously you can't sell a neutral or net negative product, so you just do what software always does, offset it with ads, i.e. consuming human time instead of money.
If a service has real value people actually want, then it doesn't require ads. If the service needs ads to be viable as a business, that's a strong indicator the product or service isn't very good or useful.
Oh we all noticed, but this is a new level of entrepreneurial narcissism and corporate gas lighting.
Maybe one day Sam Altman will generally be perceived as who he actually is
He is the boy wonder genius who will usher an era of infinite abundance but before he does that he has to take a detour to generate a lot of synthetic media & siphon a lot of user queries at every hour of every day so that advertisers can better target consumers w/ their plastic gadgets & snake oils. I'm sure they just need a few more trillions in data center buildouts & then they can get around to building the general purpose intelligence that will deliver us to the fully automated luxurious communist utopia.
