Monologue: OpenAI's Albatross
Better Offline
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how OpenAI's new image generator has become a massive burden on the company, and how OpenAI’s melting GPUs are a bad omen for the future.
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OpenAI’s new image generator is now available to all users - https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/openais-new-image-generator-is-now-available-to-all-users/
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| 1:30.5 | I feel like we're approaching a choke point in the whole generative AI bubble, the culmination |
| 1:35.2 | of over a year of different narratives and pressures that I believe will lead to an ultimate collapse. |
| 1:40.7 | Last week, Open AI released an image generator with GPT40, which quickly gained massive attention for its ability to create images in the style of famed Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli. |
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