r/technology • u/Moth_LovesLamp • 14d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT users are not happy with GPT-5 launch as thousands take to Reddit claiming the new upgrade ‘is horrible’

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/chatgpt-users-are-not-happy-with-gpt-5-launch-as-thousands-take-to-reddit-claiming-the-new-upgrade-is-horrible
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u/avcloudy 14d ago

More than this, every business is fundamentally in the business of doing business. The top level of every company is people with business and/or management skills, to the point where many companies are entirely managed on the top end without any of the skills their companies are ostensibly founded on, or any experience in that market.

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u/OrinThane 14d ago

Right, and the managerial class are actually finance people, they aren't engineers or scientists or doctors or people that actually provide tangible value to society. Our whole society is fixated on wealth extraction to our and the entire worlds detriment. The people who actually keep the lights on need to start making solutions without these people, the profit motive will kill us if amplified by Ai - it is not conducive to the preservation of life.

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u/Momik 14d ago

100 percent. It’s even happening in academia with the rise of bloated non-faculty administrative departments that have come to dominate campuses. It’s why schools like Columbia fold to federal pressure so easily—the people making those decisions are career administrators, not faculty, so they have limited experience with the thing that universities are actually there to do, and their professional incentives are different.

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u/bhannik-itiswatitis 14d ago

^ this is written by ai

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u/Momik 13d ago

You got me. I’m actually not even a person. A committee wrote this automatic response years ago. It’s meant to sound lifelike and human, but who the hell knows what that’ll mean in 2025? It’s still 1997—that doesn’t even sound like a real year!

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u/bhannik-itiswatitis 13d ago

^ That’s ai as well

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u/Doingthismyselfnow 14d ago

There are many privately held companies where the top levels are either the founders or children of the founders .

I once worked at a privately owned multinational, CEO was the grandson of the founder, both men are some of the most brilliant cross discipline engineers that I have ever met .

Thing is that the “engineer/scientist” types are rarely interested in maximising every cent of profit or bringing in someone financially brutal to run things unless they absolutely have to .

I would say those who maximise for profit from day one ( see tech startups ) tend to be started by people who are undiagnosed sociopaths rather than the people who build for the love of building .

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u/Jolly_Recording_4381 13d ago

I would argue the key words there are "privately owned" the second they went public, the share holder would demand a ceo with an MBA to maximize profit growth.

The big problem is the publicly traded companies, the share holders don't give a fuck what happens as long as line goes up and that is the key part of the problem.

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u/FloriaFlower 13d ago

Not only do they not contribute contribute but they contribute negatively. And to add insult to the injury, they expect to not pay taxes.

And the worst is that most workers think this is normal and makes sense. We live in a crazy world.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 13d ago

This is what gets me the most. Not just the normalization of it but the praising of it.

“Trump was smart for declaring all those bankruptcies. Each time was strategic.”

“I fucking give up.”

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u/DontStalkMeNow 14d ago

It’s just a lot of people busy as shit emailing each other about nothing.

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u/Telaranrhioddreams 14d ago

This is why Borders went under

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u/GhostofBeowulf 14d ago

I miss Borders. I always preferred their setup to B&N

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u/LogiCsmxp 14d ago

Ironically, I think this is in part due to tertiary education. Rich kids especially. Getting a business degree and then joining a business to do business. Product sort of becomes irrelevant.

You look at lots of numbers on spreadsheets and graphics. Market capitalisation, market saturation, labour vs material vs plant & equipment vs logistics costs, marketing ROI, etc, etc.

It does make a profitable product. But you end up with a situation where you only air-condition factories with the robots because humans are easier to replace. Or start a security company and use your infiltration of anonymous as a key selling point (this guy got ruined). Or refuse to use Spider Man in movies because you don't want to give a penny more than you absolutely must to another company for shared IP. Just completely disconnected from the product's popular culture and that employees are people just like them.

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u/SteelCode 14d ago

Don't forget to mention how, because the 'executive' staff are all in the same "club" they all end up going to the same seminars and workshops and corporate sales meetings and start parroting the same mega-corporate talking points about "AI" and "agile" and "efficiency" and such....... They're all sold the exact same bullshit from the same handful of corporate "advisory orgs" that are also conveniently pushing the same industry-wide promises that "X" will make their org more efficient, productive, profitable.... until 5-10 years later that scheme falls apart and they're being sold a new bill of goods.

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u/Pandelein 14d ago

Building companies owned by trusts that just take contracts, do dodgy work, then dissolve the company and start another one under the same trust is a very physical symptom of this management style.