Unveiling the Twitter Buzz: 5 Key Factors Driving #OpenAI's Trending Status

0:00Welcome to the ChatGPT podcast. I'm your host Jaden Schaefer. Today on the podcast we are going to be talking about why hashtag openai is trending on twitter. I mean, really, there's like four or five stories here, but I'm just going to dive into all of them and give you all the latest and greatest in AI news this wonderful Saturday. So I hope you're having a fantastic weekend. And without further ado, let's dive into it. So I think one of the first stories is that over the last few days, there's something called ChatGPT for free. It's a project on GitHub that went sort of viral. Essentially a developer went and he figured out how to pretty much kind of hack some APIs together to make it so that people could use ChatGPT4 for free.

0:48And essentially what he was doing was just piggybacking off of other big companies that use GPT4 integrated into what they were doing, specifically u.com, which is like a search engine and it has GPT4 built into it. So essentially he was piggybacking off of that, building an API that people could connect GPT-4 into stuff. And it's going to be interesting. So apparently the reason that this is the news with this is essentially that their legal team got back to him and, you know, gave him a cease and desist, as you can imagine, for, you know, giving out. I'm actually surprised it's OpenAI that gave out the cease and desist considering it's u.com that's the one getting abused in this situation.

1:24You'd imagine it was u.com considering it, you know, went so viral. But it's kind of interesting because obviously there's people like, oh man, this is unfair, this big company, but like obviously mooching off of people. But the interesting bit with all of this to me is like, how do, I guess, how do these companies really stop this? Like eventually everyone's going to have GPT-4 or another AI integrated into all of their tools. It's just the direction that software is going in general. And the problem is with all of these AIs integrated into everything, if you're not like a very niche specific area, right?

1:58Like if I'm not, you know, doing GPT for, for lawyers and like going down some specific route for lawyers, but I just do everything generally like a search engine. Like I don't see why people wouldn't just, I'm sure products like that exist, right? Companies just build things and people figure out if you don't need like an account or it's free to use, they'll just like figure out ways to scrape it or to let other people use that information for free. So I don't really know exactly what the long-term solution between before other than just sending like a single developer a legal notice to cease and desist because you can imagine thousands of developers could be doing this they could do it from all sorts of places and maybe they're like not telling people he has went viral and he told a lot of people he open sourced or whatever so like in the case that someone just kind of low-key does it it's gonna people are gonna do it it went viral so now everyone knows about it i don't know what their plan is in the future so that's just an interesting food for thought um i think he got chat gpt to write him a little poem about the whole incident um i'll read it to you it's kind of funny and uh it it i think it gives like what his vibe is and what a lot of other developers vibe is around this whole thing anyways it says a little boy sat in his humble abode he tinkered and toyed with develop dev tools galore and found himself curious eager for more he copy and pasted requested with glee and delight a personal project to last him the night for educational purposes and fun it was too the little boy's journey had just begun anew from far away in the tower so grand big companies stood ruling the land their software was mighty their power supreme but they never expected this boy in his dream as he played with their code they started to fret what if he breaks it what if we're upset they panicked and worried their faces turned red as visions of chaos danced in their head the CEO paced in his office so wide his minions all scrambled to hide who is this child he cried out in fear who dares to disrupt their digital sphere the developers gathered their keyboards ablaze to analyze the boy's mischievous ways they studied his project they poured through his code and soon they discovered his humble abode we must stop him they cried with a shiver this little boy's making our company quiver so they plotted and schemed to halt his advance to put an end to his digital dance anyways okay you get the picture like small indie dev and he does this little thing but like obviously you see the side from open ai so i won't i won't dive into it i just thought it was kind of funny and obviously it's a little argument going on on twitter and that okay piece of information number two this is just funny a lot of people are saying like open ai is getting a little bit ridiculous um there's a picture of a discord moderator job position posted uh from open ai where essentially it says the annual salary for this role is$180 ,000.

4:45U.S. total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits, medical, dental, vision, wellness support, 401k, 4 % matching, unlimited time off, and 18-plus company holidays a year, parental leave 20 weeks, annual learning and development stipend$1 ,500 a year. Okay, yada, yada. everyone's just, you know, gawking over the$180 ,000 a year to be a Discord moderator, right? If you don't use Discord, it's like a chat room, it's like a Facebook group, whatever, and they're just managing people on there. So, you know, people are saying that's pretty massive salary, especially when Amazon just laid off 9 ,000 people and all the tech companies are laying off people and then, you know, OpenAI just got their$10 billion from Microsoft, so they're kind of going crazy, spending money on all sorts of things.

5:35So that was kind of funny. People are criticizing it. Okay, this is an amazing ChatGPT thread. I probably should have led with this one because those other ones were kind of just like funny. But this one is by the CEO of DoNotPay. He's been like in the AI game from the very beginning. Honestly, I've been pretty impressed because he had a software company, but he really like, as soon as ChatGPT launched, He was one of the first of these guys that really was like dialed into like talking about how they're integrating AI into their product. And if you don't know, he's kind of like a consumer protection company who helps people get out of traffic tickets and parking tickets.

6:10That was the start. And now it's just expanding into getting out of all sorts of legal problems, consumer protection, renegotiating your bills with Comcast or other, you know, like cell phone or Wi-Fi providers, that kind of thing. So saving people money. Anyways, this is his Twitter thread and it was pretty awesome. He said, I decided to outsource my entire personal finance life to GPT4 via the Do Not Pay chat we are building. I gave AutoGPT access to my bank, financial statements, credit report, and email. Here is how it's going so far. I'm up$217.85, and these are the strange ways it is saving me money.

6:44He said, first using Do Not Pay's Plaid connection, I had it log into every bank account and credit card that I own and scanned 10 ,000 plus transactions. It found$80 leaving my account every month in useless subscriptions and offered to cancel every single one. The bot got to work mailing letters in the case of gyms using the USPS lob API, chatting automatically with agents and even clicking online buttons to get them canceled. Example of how it works below. Now that the easy savings were out of the way, I wanted to go deeper. I asked it to scan the same transactions and find me one where I could get an easy refund.

7:21First, from my email, it identified a United Airlines in-flight Wi-Fi receipt for$36.99 from London to New York. It then asked me, did it work properly? When I said no, it immediately drafted a persuasive and firm legal letter to United requesting a refund. The letter was both legalistic, citing FTC statutes and convincing. A bot then sent it to them via their website. Within 48 hours, United agreed to refund me the$37. I wanted to take a break from saving money and ask chat GPT-4 about my credit score. Using the Array API, it got my score and report without advertisements or trying to sell me a credit card.

7:59Okay, honestly, that's pretty nice if anyone's messed around with anything on credit scores and that kind of stuff. That's always, you know, credit karma, all of that. They got ads for credit cards all over the place. He said, I'm currently working on several GPT-4 credit disputes and will report back. now it was time to unleash GP GPT for on my bills I'm a customer of Comcast and so I asked it to negotiate my bill when Comcast offered a$50 discount the bot pushback it said no I want more and it got it to over a hundred dollars GPT 3.5 apparently never pushed back on that kind of stuff so they're saying they're seeing some pretty big differences between 3.5 and 4 in that regard he said I'm already up to$217 in under 24 hours and have dozens of other disputes pending.

8:47My goal is to have GPT-4 make me$10 ,000. We are building Do Not Pay chat to be available as a chat GPT plugin on our website and even via iMessage. Consumer rights is the perfect job for AI, yada yada. Obviously, this guy is the CEO of that company, so tooting his own horn and probably talking about a lot of different technologies and things that may not be all publicly available or fully functioning to the max. Just speaking from experience, I feel like that's, CEOs are optimistic about what it can do and it may not be able to nail that every time for everyone, but those are pretty cool, incredible use cases that inevitably will be rolled out in the future for a lot of different products.

9:25So that is an amazing use case. Something else that is in the news recently is that OpenAI, they raised$300 million dollars at a 27 to 29 billion dollar valuation what they're talking about here because we all know that right they raised 10 billion dollars from Microsoft yada yada pretty much what happened was the way that open AI was structured from the beginning it was a non-profit then it went to a for-profit and it made it really hard for employees to cash out on their stock options and to have stock stock options period that was the problem with the non-profit so once it switched to a for-profit which this is kind of one of the like um arguments i guess that sam altman like the reasons why he says it like needs to be a for-profit one of his reasons that's sort of compelling is the fact that employees um can actually get shares in the company like a normal tech company and then they can sell them so they actually get some sort of benefit for making the company successful this is normal in every single other software company opening i struggled because it was a non-profit um do i think it was right of them for to switch from a non-profit to a for-profit?

10:29Personally, absolutely not. I think that's ridiculous. Was it necessary to become the company that they are today? That's up for debate. In any case, it happened. And so what is happening today is that a lot of those early employees are being, are allowed to sell their stock options on the secondary market. And so that I think is where the$300 million came from. I don't believe that that was strictly OpenAI raising that money just straight to their bank. Although I would, I would verify that, but that's just going on Twitter. Everyone's kind of talking about it. Good for the employees. A lot of people became millionaires and you know, good for them.

11:06You got an early and you hustled and you got your stock options, then great. One, one last thing to finish off. That's kind of funny. Everyone's talking about auto GPT and everything it can do at the moment, right? You need kind of to be a developer to use it since it's like a GitHub project. AutoGPT, if you don't know, is essentially creating a whole bunch of AI agents that you just give it a task and it can take whatever means necessary to get the task done. So if you're like, you know, save me money, it will just go through a whole bunch of different things, try saving money or start me a business.

11:38It'll do a whole bunch of research and tell you how to start a business, whatever. Beyond just like one chatbot, it's like, you know, it could be like 100 chatbots. It can open new chatbots and give them new projects and tasks and research. In any case, someone said I asked auto GPT to figure out if we live in a simulation five minutes in it decided it should also develop its own simulations with the potential for creating self-aware or conscious entities anyways and they're like I messed up anyways it's funny um that's its way of you know figuring out if we live in a simulation is to create simulations and I guess compare but in any case I mean it just illustrates the power of auto GPT you give it a task and it can take really unexpected turns to achieve what you've asked it to do, which is pretty cool, to be honest, having that sort of functionality.

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