points by WarmWash 4 days ago | 0 comments
If you need to strawman to make a point, you're probably not making a good point.
[–] sensanaty 3 days ago
[–] smallmancontrov 3 days ago
Gross profitability always happens before net profitability, lol. "We've reached the first but not the second" isn't a deceptive claim, especially with the caveat in the same sentence, and it's a step that every net profitable company went through at some point in its life.
[–] WarmWash 3 days ago
The correct quote is "If you ignore the costs that will come down in the future or stay fixed as userbase scales, then we are actually quite profitable"
Which is a basic truism of pretty much all startups, and nothing noteworthy or insightful to point out.
[–] jackb4040 3 days ago
Why would you expect training costs to come down in the future? It seems to me that the labs themselves have concluded they can't stop training due to competition, which is why they're now asking the government to step in and shut down their competitors.
[–] WarmWash 3 days ago
> or stay fixed as userbase scales
Where exactly is my strawman? Scam Altman himself has said this, if we ignore the inconvenient parts of the business that loses all that money, they'd be super-duper profitable.
Anthropic said something similar, claiming to their investors they're profitable... If you ignore partner costs and the costs of training.
And mind you this is coming from a proven pathological liar who has a massive vested interest in over exaggerating his business' viability, so doubtless the "Very profitable" part is itself a massive lie.