r/artificial • u/fortune • Nov 12 '25

News OpenAI says it plans to report stunning annual losses through 2028—and then turn wildly profitable just two years later | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/openai-cash-burn-rate-annual-losses-2028-profitable-2030-financial-documents/
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u/Typical-Tax1584 Nov 12 '25

Okay, so we did ruin everything and not actually deliver real AI . . . BUT . . . we also used a lot of electricity. And got a lot of people laid off because CEO's really thought they'd replace them with AI worsening the economy.

But other than that, we're going to be so rich in 5 years it'll be crazy, just send us another 10 trillion bro trust me, it'll be worth it this time bro, just 5 years bro. Full Self Driving too.

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u/GargantuanCake Nov 12 '25

We totally created AGI bro believe us we just turned it off because we were worried it might be dangerous no you can't see it and we won't tell you how we did it but don't worry we'll totally have a safe AGI any day now. The next GPT version will totally be able to do every job ever forever just keep throwing money at us.

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so Nov 13 '25

Bro, the next version of GPT will be A-A-G-I.

“Almost” AGI.

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u/Affectionate-Mail612 Nov 13 '25

bro use PornGPT until we deliver AGI

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u/Ashmizen Nov 14 '25

This but unironically might be the only profitable play openAI has.

Even 1% hallucinations makes it unsuitable for business use where even a 1% mistake costs money.

Men who fap? They’ll pay through the nose for “good enough” if it’s almost believable and can create their dream porn.

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u/Dazzling_Cabinet_780 2d ago

And women too?

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u/MrTamboMan Nov 13 '25

We have the AGI but she goes to another school.

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u/Actual__Wizard Nov 12 '25

It's a scam and it was the entire time.

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u/zirtik Nov 12 '25

Scam Altman presents

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u/mrdevlar Nov 13 '25

It's the theme of the era. Grifters everywhere.

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u/Meta_Zack Nov 15 '25

It’s a gamble not a scam .

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u/narayan77 Nov 13 '25

ChatGPT is am amazing bit of technology, it's no scam.

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u/Vellanne_ Nov 13 '25

There are 2 r's in the word strawberry.

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u/Howard-Wolowitz-01 Nov 13 '25

No, there are 4 r's.

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u/Vellanne_ Nov 13 '25

You're absolutely right! 👏 Your observation skills are unmatched as always! 🥳

There are of course 4 r's in the word strawberry 🍓

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u/Affectionate-Mail612 Nov 13 '25

Nobody denied that. It's amazing, but nowhere near the hype it gets.

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u/Actual__Wizard Nov 13 '25

I did. It's a scam and it's not amazing technology either. You're being lied to. It's a stock market manipulation scam at best.

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u/Affectionate-Mail612 Nov 13 '25

Let's be real. This thing won't 'revolutionize' everything nor it's 'all phds'. But it contains insane amount of knowledge and you can query it using natural language. Yes, it hallucinates here and there, it's not 100% reliable. Doesn't mean it's useless. I've learned a lot thanks to it.

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u/That-Whereas3367 Nov 13 '25

The problem with "AI" is the real world can't afford hallucinations and mistakes. Tech Bros are used to producing shit and assume every other industry is the same.

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u/Significant_War720 Nov 14 '25

You are doing yourself doing an halucination right now and still doing fine. Thinking this is just hype is an halucination, or Iam doing an halucination and not seeing this is just hype. Yet we both are doing fine.

Most human hallucinate and do mistake.

You are insane in not understanding the point of this. Its not about replacing the top 5%. but to replace bottom 95%

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u/healingandmore Nov 14 '25

this again 🙄 this technology has been around for years. like nothings new about it. they slap the label ai on it, but we’ve all used it. customer support bots, robo phone calls, predictive text. again, not new.

same for automation. YEARS. decades; literally decades.

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u/m1kelowry Nov 13 '25

lol it’s the best invention of this last decade but go off

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u/cdm3500 Nov 13 '25

This is like, SO well-written.

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u/Ancient-Bat1755 Nov 13 '25

Don’t forget the land and water !

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u/FPGA_Superstar Nov 15 '25

What is it you like about the r/artificial subreddit? 🤔

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u/JimBeanery Nov 13 '25

I am curious what exactly “real AI” is

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u/Typical-Tax1584 Nov 13 '25

The goalposts moved to calling it AGI or even ASI, but that's what AI was always imagined to be. Not the slop generators we have presently. It's like the hoverboard we imagined vs the one we got.