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Uh... famously untrue. Mental illness has plagued monarchs, pharaohs, and caesers for millennia. That's long before you get to all the quirked up white boys and trad rad girl bosses currently running things.
Okay, but you can review their balance sheets and their primary lines of credit. Case in point, Sam Altman is heavily reliant on three big financial partners - Softbank, Oracle, and NVIDIA. Two of these are - themselves - hemorrhaging money thanks to large capital outlays that have failed to produce substantive returns.
There are finance journalists who get out ahead of this and report their own analysis. And you can find that in a thousand different private journals, substacks, and podcasts. But you can also go do the grunt work yourself if you're ambitious.
OpenAI's financials have been disclosed already (although the official SEC filing is still upcoming). So... just read them if you doubt what you're reading in the news. But it's not some kind of secret that the business is operating at a loss, with a fixation on debt-fueled growth. The argument is over future projected revenue, which isn't something business leadership can be any more certain of than a passive media consumer.
I definitely get the knee-jerk impulse to announce "business professionals know more about business than internet idiots". Because, sure. True. But the idea that business professionals don't routinely make bad decisions has some pretty historic well-established counterpoints.
"The business people know more" line is akin to saying "This used car dealer must know more about the vehicles on his lot than I do, so I can trust him".
Sure, professionals make bad decisions. Usually they're more complex than they seem on the surface, but there are exceptions. Sure, you can put the work in to out-knowledge them. Doubt anyone here is interested enough to do that, but the internet is a big place.
Regardless, it should be fairly obvious that giving a company you hate money will not cause them to fail faster. We can quibble over the exact mechanism, but the overall point stands.
I'll concede that trying to soak Altman for $14k/mo when he's already hemorrhaging billions is a bit like pissing in the river.
I might ask what you plan to do with the $14k in tokens you're burning. If you've got a material use case for them, and Altman wants to sell you $20 for a nickel, go wild.
But half the joke of AI is that you're burning tokens to do nothing. That's why businesses recoil as soon as they're asked to justify at-cost AI spend.
"every little bit helps" said the old woman as she pissed in the sea . . .