"If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altman

It's really the perfect opportunity for integration! They can steal the data and content of their own users, instead of other people's users, and then they can serve their slop directly to their own users instead of users having to generate and export their slop to other people's social media sites. And both of these applications can distract from the fact that AGI isn't happening and even more modest LLM agents aren't practically useful. And since Altman already built up a user base on ChatGPT, he'll have a head start on getting a critical mass of users!

Thinking about it... something like this is probably Altman's best bet for making OpenAI's financials work out, because as David Gerard and Ed Zitron and others have all pointed out, they are losing money per LLM user, so they really do need a way to convert a huge user base into money that doesn't involve LLMs.

“They changed the only part of the article that I read! I’m gonna report this!!!!”

Can’t go sneering with our wits tied behind our backs!

That sometimes the crazy headline rewrite is actually the articles headline is half the fun.

I've never seen Milhouse and Sam in the same room together

To be clear, it's well known L Ron Hubbard quote originally about starting a religion, to my knowledge Altman didn't really say that.