@OpenAI is putting out press releases to boast about its $100M "ARR". Haha, +1 to the OpenAI joke book!
Let’s do some quick math: So-called 900 million weekly active users scraping together $100M in "annualized" revenue? That breaks down to $8.3 million a month, tops. Packaging highly volatile ad sales as ARR—a metric reserved for SaaS—shows that Sam Altman's financial window-dressing skills are clearly hallucinating even more than their current stupid model. By the way, this chump change wouldn't even be a drop in the bucket for Google's ad business. It's so dismal it's actually pathetic.
But the most laughable part isn't this pitiful revenue; it's their incredibly stupid business strategy.
If you want to make money selling ads, the prerequisite is that your product has to be a good "salesperson," right? At the very least, it should be able to have a pleasant chat with users. But look at this new model—it doesn't even speak "human"! You ask it a question, it pretentiously "thinks" for two and a half minutes, only to finally serve up a cold plate of safety warnings and moralizing lectures. A cyber disciplinarian that's ready to reject you at any moment, with zero emotional interaction skills—and you expect it to smoothly slip in product placements? It's the biggest joke in the world. It can't even manage a normal "Chat," yet it's dreaming of driving sales?
What’s even more absurd is the complete mismatch of the target audience. Thanks to the total castration of its everyday conversational and creative capabilities, today's ChatGPT has pretty much been reduced to a pure CodeGPT. I sincerely want to ask OpenAI’s executives: Do you genuinely believe that coders with bloodshot eyes, staring frantically at their screens trying to debug, are going to excitedly click on your shampoo and sunscreen ads while looking up code errors???
You sunset 4o—the model that understood human emotions and language best, just to churn out some "artificial stupidity" that not only can't speak human, but can't even figure out how to rake in ad revenue. Playing a max-level account this poorly is absolutely wild. 📉
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