Wait, #openai is valued at $500 *billion*?Are you kidding me? I wouldn't value it at more than $1 billion and that's being optimistically generous.Of course there's a lot more to the article, which is informative, but the $500B is shocking for an environmentally damaging free product which plagiarizes existing works to function.https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/openais_chatgpt_popular_few_pay/?td=rt-3a#ai #tech #waste