OpenAI Considers Creating an App Store for AI Software

OpenAI -- an early mover in releasing chatbots powered by large-language models -- is contemplating another initiative to extend its influence in the world of artificial intelligence. From a report: The company is considering launching a marketplace in which customers could sell AI models they customize for their own needs to other businesses, according to two people with knowledge of discussions at the company.

The marketplace could be OpenAI's version of an app store, offering businesses a way to access bleeding-edge large-language models that can, for instance, sniff out financial fraud in online retail transactions or answer questions about specific markets with up-to-date information, these people said. Creating such an app store also could be a hedge against a future where no AI model dominates. It's not clear whether OpenAI would charge commissions on those sales or otherwise look to generate revenue from the marketplace.

Come on, don't link to The Information!

[garcia]

https://www.reuters.com/techno... [reuters.com]

There really isn't any reason at all to link to a site that has a wall when the same information is available elsewhere.

OpenAI has no future

[WaffleMonster]

No thanks, there are plenty of models available for free.

OpenAI went from an open project to a closed project to a closed project that actively seeks to fuck over open projects by lobbying lawmakers and now model stores that disincentivize collaboration.

no profit motive at all

[Anonymouse Cowtard]

It's not clear whether OpenAI would charge commissions on those sales or otherwise look to generate revenue from the marketplace

Ahahahaahah maybe they're altruistic and doing it for the fairies.

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[real_nickname]

chatgpt and dall-e probably bring more bad than good to society: infinite free ads and scams generation, misleading answers. If they did it for free, it would be real evil. I'm still waiting for a positive life changing application of generative AI (I like the improvement to code completion and image editing but it's not life changing).

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[Visarga]

Who made an internet full of scams, ads, spam and fake news prior to 2023? The human GPTs. We are the originals. We are the best! yeah!!!

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[real_nickname]

LLM sends productivity of low quality content creators (spammers, automated ''news" site/video,ads...) to new high but they are still human as far as i know, nothing changed. As an example, twitter threads are now full of "funny"/"make you think" midjourney generated images usually posted by blue users. Even AI bros are worried to see internet, their main source of data, becoming a can of Ai generated junk.

Re: no profit motive at all

[Bobknobber]

And in the future (or even now), these low-effort spammers can just set a bot up that will automatically produce AI-generated spam at given intervals using prompts generated by another bot while giving bot responses that are convincing enough to fool the average user.

It really is just bots all the way down.

Re: no profit motive at all

[Bobknobber]

The real profit is the data they will receive from both the apps themselves and what they collect on their users.
At this point we have effectively exhausted most of not all the free data on the web. Gotta get new data elsewhere that is not behind a closed-off API.

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[Visarga]

After much waiting I happened to get access to Anthropic Claude AI. Let me tell you, it feels smarter than GPT-4, and more compliant. OpenAI won't monopolise high end LLM market. They have a temporary lead, but the future leans towards competition. And the open source effect - I expect all tasks that can be solved with a LLaMA size model to be out of OpenAI and Anthropic's market.

I'm going back to sleep now

[jenningsthecat]

Wake me up when the AI itself opens an app store to sell apps to other AI's.

What's the point of an AI app store...

[posixively_true]

...if you can't run ChatGPT on Emacs? (replace "app store" with anything really)