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So Microsoft went from 49% to now 27%? Open AI with their non-profit and their for-profit and all these investments and deals they are doing. It feels like they are spending more time doing financial trickery than building AI products.

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There's a public trail of reddit comments where Altman all but owns up to finagling board seats and ownership rights for Reddit many years ago. This is how he operates.

The money needed to run AI company is huge. If they don't do financial trickery, there is huge risk of going out of business.

AI is not making enough money to cover the cost and it will take a decade or so to cover the same.

I am highly skeptical that we will see AI pay for itself by the end of the decade.

More likely Americans’ tax dollars will be shoveled into the hole.

Then it isn't a viable business. Find another path that doesn't risk crashing the economy.

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