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GPTs feels like such a half-baked idea. ChatGPT is still very squarely an experimentation/ideation product. Productizing the core functionality wrapped around a flimsy prompt with a non-deterministic input and can easily be hacked doesn't seem like a good focus for OpenAI right now.

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If they studied the Amazon playbook, GPTs is their market research divion.

They'll see what catches with these thin crowd-sources veneers then displace the best with fully developed, uncredited productizations at scale.

Not half baked. Fully baked and straight out of the 2020's MBA program oven.

On the other hand, they're bringing a large chunk of the newly minted market of thin wrappers around ChatGPT inhouse. At this point this is an outsized portion of the "AI" ecosystem but has always been just low-hanging fruit for OpenAI. They've been saying as much themselves for quite a while now.

It seems like a great starting point for an idea, but it also seems like they (/Mr Altman) just leapt with it too early in an effort to gain some FMA or keep the hype going…? Even the name ‘GPT Store’ sounds a bit too much like something ChatGPT itself would come up with. It sounds like a parody of a product announcement!

FMA?

I wrote a GPT for that! https://chat.openai.com/g/g-3V1JcLD92-dejargonizer (Notes on how that works are here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/15/gpts/#dejargonizer)

I fed it that comment and it said:

> FMA: This acronym can have several meanings, but in this context, it likely stands for "First Mover Advantage." This business term refers to the benefits gained by a company that is the first to enter a new market or develop a new product or technology.

first mover advantage, probably

Yeah. Not a standard abbreviation but thought it might be understood from context.

It's an MVP I belive

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