this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
912 points (97.7% liked)
Technology
88763 readers
2648 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
OpenAI promised investors an AI gold rush. Now its projected annual revenue is reportedly $20 billion below earlier expectations. That’s not a rounding error: that’s an entire business empire missing from the spreadsheet. Silicon Valley keeps calling it a revolution, but increasingly it looks like a trillion dollar game of musical chairs, with investors hoping the music never stops.
Maybe he could sleep in the factory for a few weekends? P
they've really gotta stop offering avocado toast at the company cafeteria. That'll make up the difference.
Now that you bring this up...
Yes, I think you could have found the solution, indeed. Quick, tell them! The world is saved!!
one of his soon to be defunct datacenters.
Its a trillion dollar game of musical chairs with roughly 8.3 billion people playing and only a few thousand chairs.
That’s just life you’re describing. Life in capitalism, that is.
You gotta admit though the tempo of the music is getting pretty fast these days.
Miiiighty fast. And if you aren’t born with your name on one of the chairs, you’re not even in the game.
Nah, far from everyone wants to be a trillionaire, nor a billionaire. Sure most would want financial independence, but not a lot more than that
Ahh but you are falling into a common fallacy, you probably think that because there is enough money to go around everyone should have a enough to meet their needs, then the excess can be an incentive for people who make outsized contributions to society, like a not sociopathic member of the human race.
The bloodsucking leech class view the existence of other people with needs as a personal insult. They feel every cent of money should be theirs personally, or as a barely acceptable compromise maybe shared around an "elite" class.
If Bezos for instance could have all the money and just issue Amazon Bucks™ based on how useful you are to him he would love that.
Honestly the reason we know Elon isn't a real gamer is that he doesn't have a bunch of four "agents" in trenchcoats with neuralinks and miniguns running around cities as he directs them to from an airship overhead. Otherwise that game would be as close to a masturbatory fantasy as someone who can't get hard after all the Special K would get.
And even the fifty billions may be inflated, as it is "annualized" revenue which can mean "we took a period of peak usage and generalized it to a year"
Didn't Anthropic calculate it based on the best day and multiplying by 365?
If I reported my income this way it would be fraud (and I would also “make” over 200k).
I didn't wanna claim it when I wasn't sure of the source but yeah that's what I remember too
This account reeks of clanker. Are people just okay with that or am I missing something?
Don't have the energy to look into the account itself, but this comment does have that "it's not just x it's y" stank. It's everywhere nowadays, it's fucking exhausting.
In blog posts, in news articles, YouTube videos and now in fucking lemmy comments. Disgusting.
Who could have known this would happen?
Same thing just happened with Anthropics numbers. Billions short of their stated numbers.
Sigh. This comment reeks of AI slop
It’s just revenue, not profit. Don’t worry.
I mean, it's not a rounding error, but going from 4.5 billion to 80 billion is not shabby either
Why do you sound like the House of El?
It's an LLM adbot, or, at best, someone having LLM craft all of their comments and posts.
The accounts profile heavily advertises services for LLM adbots covertly advertising to people using social media.
Search is garbage now, but I'd bet even money he is lifting text directly from House of El--or they have a common source.
I've felt for a while that House of El uses LLMs heavily in their scripts. It's a pandemic on YouTube feels like.
So yeah, the common source is likely clanker speak.