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chromacitytoday at 8:00 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm not sure your criticism is quite fair. I think everyone here is willing to cut more slack to the underdog. But when your company represents an outsized chunk of the digital economy and employs 10k+ people, and only then says "sooo, let's try to build some sort of a profitable product here", I can see why people are rolling their eyes.

OpenAI also burned a lot of goodwill by pretending to be a nonprofit foundation focused on the betterment of mankind and then executing one of the most spectacular rugpulls in modern history. So yeah, people will be giving them a hard time even if it turns out that the valuation is justified.


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jamiek88today at 11:23 PM

And literally boasted how it was going to obsolete white collar workers. Like of course most people are cheering for its failure.