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When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable. (lemmy.ml)

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[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

Is OpenAI profitable now?

[-] ddplf@szmer.info 1 points 1 day ago

Wait, since when it had not been? Or are you telling me that vastly the fastest growing platform in history with multiple payment gates (subscriptions, pay per token, licensing etc.) was not profitable for some reason?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

Running those datacenters is extremely expensive.

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Estimates from earlier this year are that they spend $2.35 for every $1 they make.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

It's following the Amazon monopolization model.

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 day ago

They've never been profitable and current estimates say they won't be profitable until at least 2029: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-profit-funding-ai-microsoft-chatgpt-revenue-2024-10

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

They should ask ChatGPT hoe to make OpenAI profitable. I'm sure the answer will make them take off.

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[-] doctortran@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Can we be honest about this, please?

Aaron Swartz went into a secure networking closet and left a computer there to covertly pull data from the server over many days without permission from anyone, which is absolutely not the same thing as scraping public data from the internet.

He was a hero that didn't deserve what happened, but it's patently dishonest to ignore that he was effectively breaking and entering, plus installing a data harvesting device in the server room, which any organization in the world would rightfully identity as hostile behavior. Even your local library would call the cops if you tried to do that.