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Sam Altman: belief

20 Sept 2023 Latent Space Heralds of the AI Content Flippening — with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai

“Um, I can accept that one, but like, that's not why I would say Facebook is like a giant business.”

— Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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belief
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20 Sept 2023
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Latent Space

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…This is not the first time. And, but I think it's actually, you know, having been an investor, it is more important for you to answer that question authentically for yourself. Yeah. Because you are the one spending your time on this. Yeah. We're just giving you money. It's not, not that big of a deal. My favorite quote actually I went to an early, like, preach G B t forum with Sam Altman. Mm-hmm. . And I had this video advice from Sam that said like, Facebook had no. And they just built and got the network. There are product, network effect, distribution modes, something like that. Let's say Google is a, was at least at some point a legitimate technological mode. Um, I can accept that one, but like, that's not why I would say Facebook is like a giant business. It's not why I would say Twitter is such as it is a giant business. Um, I think there are a lot of ways to build a great business. And the big lie of like the tech industry is that you get there with differentiated technology. It's rare. But frankly…

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