> Just my own observation that the same pattern has occurred at least 3 times now:
> release a model; overhype it; provide max compute; sell it as the new baseline
> this attracts a new wave of users to show exponential growth & bring in the next round of VC funding (they only care about MAU going up, couldn’t care less about existing paying users)
> slowly degrade the model and reduce inference
> when users start complaining, initially ignore them entirely
then start gaslighting and make official statements denying any degradation
> then frame it as a tiny minority of users experiencing issues
then, when pressure grows, blame it on an “accidentally” misconfigured servers that “unintentionally” reduced quality (which coincidentally happened to save the company tonnes of $).
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> Just my own observation that the same pattern has occurred at least 3 times now:
> release a model; overhype it; provide max compute; sell it as the new baseline
> this attracts a new wave of users to show exponential growth & bring in the next round of VC funding (they only care about MAU going up, couldn’t care less about existing paying users)
> slowly degrade the model and reduce inference
> when users start complaining, initially ignore them entirely then start gaslighting and make official statements denying any degradation
> then frame it as a tiny minority of users experiencing issues then, when pressure grows, blame it on an “accidentally” misconfigured servers that “unintentionally” reduced quality (which coincidentally happened to save the company tonnes of $).