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Ah, I see you got that all wrong.

Open IA AI uses that content to generate billions in profit on the backs of The People. The Internet Archive just does it for the good of The People.

We can’t have that. “Good for The People” is not how the economy works, pal. We need profit and exploitation for the world to work…

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OpenAI is burning billions of dollars not making profit.

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Sounds like they are operating the same as all the other big tech companies then

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Burn a ton a cash to become the only major player in the market and the proceed to enshitify as no one else has anywhere to go.

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Eh? That article says nothing about their profit margins. Today they have something like $3.5B in ARR (not really, that’s annualized from their latest peak, in Feb they had like $2B ARR). Meanwhile they have operating costs over $7B. Meaning they are losing money hand over fist and not making a profit.

I’m not suggesting anything else, just that they are not profitable and personally I don’t see a road to profitability beyond subsidizing themselves with investment.

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“Good for the people”? You mean COMMUNISM?

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I think you accidentally swapped OpenAI and Open IA which happens to initialize Internet Archive, a little confusing.

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I didn’t even realise. Thank you for pointing it out, I fixed it.

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