You’re saying the company’s product has no value because another company by the same guy produced no value. That is the literal definition of guilt by association: you are judging the chatgpt produced based on the worldcoin product’s value.
As a customer, I don’t care about the people. I’m not interested in either argument by authority (if Altman says it’s good it must be good) or ad hominem (that Altman guy is a jerk, nothing he does can have value).
The actual product. Have you tried it? With an open mind?
Ah, so you're one of the "I separate the art from the artist, so I'm allowed to listen to Kanye" kinda people. I respect that, at least when the product is something of subjective value like art. In this case, 3 months of not buying ChatGPT Pro would afford you the funding to build your own damn AI cluster.
To be honest, it doesn't matter what the price of producing AI is, though. $200/month is, and will be a stupid price to pay because OpenAI already invented a price point with a half billion users - free. When they charged $10/month, at least they weren't taking advantage of the mentally ill. This... this is a grift, and a textbook one at that.
It is true that I separate art from artist. Mostly because otherwise there would be very little art to enjoy.
You don’t sound like you’re very familiar with the chatgpt product. They have about 10m customers paying $20/month. I’m one of them, and I honestly get way more than $200/month value from it.
Perhaps I’m “mentally ill”, but I’d ask you to do some introspection and see if leaping to that characterization is really the best way to explain people who get value where you see none.
Have you been introduced to their CEO yet? 5 minutes of Worldcoin research should assuage your curiosity.