He did this for fun and made a video about it. Based on his posting history it doesn't seem that he is playing anything just wanna make sure that his work gets visibility (thumbnail)
Fools alone, maybe deserving of some sympathy. Greedy get-rich-quick fools who derided everyone not participating in the scam, nah, no sympathy from me, none at all.
What is this horrible suffering people had to endure?
IMO, it was basically all self inflicted anguish due to "someone else is wrong on the internet" syndrome.
If someone wants to gamble their money away, you don't have to care. If they want to talk about it, you don't have to listen.
People act like living in a world with people who act differently was some kind of ordeal. they have totally lost the ability to not engage with topics they don't enjoy, and then take joy in the pain of others.
Just because something is great doesn't mean that others can't compete. Even a secondary good product can easily be successful due to a company having invested too much, not being aware of openai (ai progress in general), due to some magic integration, etc.
If it would be only me, no one would buy azure or aws but just gcp.
The IT worlds is basically integration and / or very niche custom software development.
There are plenty of countries around the world, special use cases, etc. and enough work for the normal it world to go around.
For my startup, im pretty sure the finetuning is a huge win even if we 'just use' openai because openai doesn't have the information we have and i'm pretty sure they also don't care for our niche (right now, and AGI in 20 years, i will probably no longer be needed one way or the other ;P)
