Ed Zitron argues that OpenAI is manipulating its financial reporting to mask massive losses, particularly by reclassifying inference costs as sales and marketing, all to sustain a 'cargo cult' mythology that AI will inevitably become profitable and dominant—despite no real evidence of sus
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