One lesson AI founders must learn from the Reddit fiasco: if you're developing a product that relies on another platform - creating a third-party app on Reddit or a tool using OpenAI - you're constructing a sandcastle during low tide. 

Sooner or later, the tide will come in.

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I think the jury is out on OpenAI - I’m not convinced that they’re motivated to own the customer relationship for every user of a GPT model.

In hindsight though the Reddit thing was inevitable, we’ve seen the same thing happen on Facebook, Twitter, etc

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Usage based paid API too. They win in all cases. Still a risk but not the same as building on Twitter or Reddit