AI company pivots to advertising

OpenAI burned billions, faced mounting costs and aggressive competition, and moved to monetize ChatGPT with advertising and other revenue plans as it raced to prove a viable business model.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan

Scholar power: 2.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 38%, Economics 19%, Computer science 19%, Communication & Media Studies 14%, Law 10%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Brendan Nyhan	4%	51	2.9%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

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Recency

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Scholar power

58.0%

11.1 h

336

2.9%

Ranking score

0.04

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

Reposted by Larry W. Hunter, Jonathan Wolff, Anne Norton

13%

Scholar power: 13.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 38%, Economics 19%, Computer science 19%, Communication & Media Studies 14%, Law 10%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Larry W. Hunter	23%	26	11.7%
🎓 Jonathan Wolff	2%	33	1.1%
🎓 Anne Norton	1%	14	0.4%
Total			13.3%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

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Recency

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Scholar power

60.0%

22.7 h

13.3%

Ranking score

0.035

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

Shadow Hedgie 🌻

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"OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product."

good lord, what is happening in there