Post #4371697
2026-08-04 07:39 UTC
@jmopp@masto.ai a billion dollar indie game? Maybe, with bold creative vision. A billion dollar generic swords and sorcery graphics-enhanced mud? With no disrespect to the genre, I really don’t think so.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-08-04 09:56
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @jmopp@masto.ai I suspect the business model is: Spend $1m on tokens with OpenAI.Build a game with one player, but who is willing to pay $1m to play it (they have done!).Create PowerPoint slides that show $1/m user revenue and a total addressable market of at least ten thousand users.Sell 1% of the company to OpenAI for $10M.Yay, $1B valuation! Unicorn.Spend the $10M on OpenAI.OpenAI books $10M of revenue (yay, customers, valuation increases by $100M).OpenAI writes off the investment. Seems to work for the rest of the 'AI' ecosystem.