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OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

so when was youtube profitable?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Youtube wasn't burning billions per year and it's also pretty much the primary entity for video for the whole world which has other benefits for google. Finally Youtube can be monetized through adverts, since storage and bandwidth costs are relatively low. Whereas GenAI's compute costs aren't.

[–] explodicle 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't they put ads into the responses?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

If they could, they would have already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

x doubt

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

An ad before and after every single question you ask chatgpt? Worth a shot, I guess !

[–] Saledovil 6 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think Youtube was ever profitable, to be honest.