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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m guessing that means a team or someone presented their pricing analysis to him, and suggested a price range. And this is his way of taking responsibility for making the final judgment call.

(He’d get blamed either way, anyways)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

$20/mo sounds like a reasonable subscription-ish price, so he picked that. That OpenAI loses money on every query, well, let's build up volume!

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

While the words themselves near an apology, I didn't read it as taking responsibility. I read it as:

Anyone could have made this same mistake. In fact, dumber people than I would surely have done worse.