Archive for who gets paywall https://archive.is/09ZtS
(I didn’t get paywall but the verge is in my noscript blacklist)
They boast having hired 5 slop specialists that chose the least worse shots over 70000 prompts
They have something like $50 billion yearly revenue, can’t pay real people for an ad? Literally peanuts for them.



But are they paying for this energy or is it AI companies doing so and waiting for the golden goose that will make it all worth it?
No, the ones who are paying for the energy are the people who live near whatever data centers received the slop requests.
Well the Microsoft fillings hint that OpenAI lost $11.5 billion last, so I’m going with they’re waiting for the golden goose