[vidarh]

I'm not funding its startup ideas.

prompt "startup idea:"

result:

"Startup idea: Create a site where folks can send you the files that they need to be published, e.g., PDFs, that you then make a "bundle" out of with some form of file compression (perhaps something called .tar files?), then make those into an .iso image, and finally burn that to DVD.

That is, I'd create something that would take the files you give it (either from a web form or by uploading a file), and create a .tar.bz2 file containing the .bz2-format copies of those files. Then I'd take that .tar.bz2 file and create a .iso image from it. And finally I'd burn that .iso to a DVD.

The .iso image would be an exact copy of the .tar.bz2 file, except it would contain the files compressed."

[vidarh]

... and it seems to have "invented" a previously existing product, including name. This is what worries me about relying on GPT (same prompt - "startup idea:"):

"Startup idea: a tool that can be used to identify, track and rank your social media followers, with suggestions and reports that could provide your with a better grasp of who you’re trying to reach.

There are many ways in which you can develop your Facebook, Twitter, and other social media profile. One of them can be to get as many people to follow you on social media and like or comment on your posts as possible. We’ve come across a tool that can be used to monitor your social media profile and track your followers.

The SocialBro tool can help you achieve this aim by tracking who follows you on Facebook and Twitter and give you some reports to help you get to know your audience better. SocialBro is a tool that can help you monitor and measure your social media activity. What this means is that you can set a goal and measure whether or not you’ve achieved it. For example, the goal you set for this tool could be that you want to get your Facebook friends to like your page."

Compare: https://socialbro.en.softonic.com/ (now Audiense)

[9dev]

That’s probably more telling of the amount of awful startup ideas floating around in the internet :)

[vidarh]

Probably. It's a fascinating one, though, for the combination of how coherent the description is, and that it's an idea that represents a very narrow point in time in between bandwidth becoming good enough for some to find it practical to send off files to someone else to burn on a DVD and before high bandwidth connections becoming commonplace enough to render it meaningless. That's a very narrow time frame.

[noduerme]

The more I test it, the more I think it meanders until it finds a 90s blog rant it likes, and then just runs the rant through a thesaurus.