Today I’m going to walk you through a fairly unique position: that OpenAI is just another boring AI startup lacking any meaningful product roadmap or strategy, using the press as a tool to pump its bags while very rarely delivering on what it’s promised. It is a company with massive amounts of cash, industrial backing, and brand recognition, and otherwise is, much like its customers, desperately trying to work out how to make money selling products built on top of Large Language Models.
OpenAI lives and dies on its mythology as the center of innovation in the world of AI, yet reality is so much more mediocre. Its revenue growth is slowing, its products are commoditized, its models are hardly state-of-the-art, the overall generative AI industry has lost its sheen, and its killer app is a mythology that has converted a handful of very rich people and very few others.
Since when did zitron paywall his posts?? I usually read them and I understand giving content away for free is largely unsustainable, but I’m too unemployed to want to pay $7/mo
He started writing one post per week in June. Previously, it was one per month. The one per month is still free. Personally, I believe it’s fair wanting to get paid for the additional content.
He also reads out the paywalled articles in his podcast “Better Offline”, if you don’t want to pay.
Great podcast, too IMO.
Use firefox, it has an icon at the end of the URL that allows a reading mode, this bypasses paywall scripts
That won’t work if the check is server side, and they don’t send the article content to you at all without paying. That seems to be the case here.