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cool, cool....Hey Reese which LLM's have you invested in that you're now advocating more women utilize them? OpenAI? Anthropic?
She's not stupid. She's trying to get a return on investment.
I seriously tried looking for a connection with her portfolio's available online, she seems clean and genuinely just advocating woman to use it. ~~That's what it looks like right now, at least in public view.~~ Don't blame anyone in the slightest for the cynicism though in the current atmosphere.
E: Welp, there goes my optimism.
That is also what it looked like back in 2022 when she partnered with World of Women to release NFT's.
“While the crypto and NFT space is largely dominated by men, there are inspiring leaders like World of Women creating incredible communities for women during this massive shift for media and technology,”
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/reese-witherspoon-hello-sunshine-world-of-women-partner-nft-movies-tv-shows-live-events-1235185212/
Ugh, I seriously appreciate you ruining my optimism.
Crypto also trades in lockstep with Nvidia which essentially THE AI company now. Coefficient of like ~.8
She doesn't need to be invested in any particular LLM company. If she only bought a world ETF she's already heavily invested in LLMs.
Neither of those are public yet.
She might have enough money to be privately invested. If not directly, through a hedge fund or rich pals.
Isn’t she famous for being an early actor who became an investor, like Like the Punk’d/70s show guy.
She has hundreds of millions of dollars. She can be invested in whatever she wants.
I don’t think that’s the argument being had.
Seems like they are unsure, I was clarifying that she does indeed have the money.
Even if your unfounded accusation was true, do you think her ROI would change depending on what she says to variety? She is not stupid. You? I have my doubts...
Yes actually, having a celebrity speak favorably about a company to boost sales and/or stock value is a thing, and owning stock in a company is an obvious incentive for a person to want to boost that stock's value, fucking duh
Openai's valuation is at 30B dollars and illiterate farmer at the end of the world knows what it is. If you think whatever RW tells pop culture magazine makes a dent in it, one way or the other, you need to recalibrate your tinfoil hat. Fucking duh.
Valuation based on fantastical quantities of bullshit, growing public awareness that bubble will pop sooner rather than later, extremely plausible that tech companies would enlist celebrities to help prop their scheme up as long as they can, cry about it
You are the one crying about it, i am laughing at you ;)
Oh hey, i just found i am wasting my time talking to .ml asshole and genocide denier. Fuck off and bye.
I deny genocides that are fictional
I am having such a hard time picking a side here because you're both kinda fucked lol but 🍿🍿🍿
ARR is around 30b, valuation is over 800b.
my bad, thanks for the correction. she is even more unlikely to make a dent in that, though.
Why do advertisers use celebrities in their advertisements? Shits and giggles?
advertisers use celebrities that fit the size of their business. if your business is right now literally taking over the word and it is dependent on statements of presidents and top 10 billionaires in the world, then reese witherspoon does not really play in this league and chance she will make any noticable dent in its popularity or evaluation is astronomically low.
have you noticed that celebrities also have opinions and sometimes share them for free? when a celebrity speaks for war, are you asking "how much have you invested in military industrial complex?" when they speak against war, are you asking "how much have you invested in red cross?" when celebrity speaks about education, are you asking "have you recently invested in any private schools?"
not everything in the world is conspiracy.