TootGuitar

Where are you from? In English it's always the case that you put the dollar sign before the number.

Thanks! Yeah I guess it might be hard for some people, but I speak some French and Spanish and it's not hard for me to remember to ¡use proper exclamation points in Spanish! or «use guillemets instead of quotation marks in French». This feels like the same sort of thing.

I understand that it’s different in other languages, but I often see this behavior from native US Americans who only speak English.

Yes, it’s relevant in this day and age, because it’s still incorrect to do it the other way (at least in English and with $£¥ and a couple others, as another commenter pointed out).

When I read “20$” my first thought is that the person writing it didn’t pay attention in elementary school.

And being lenient about it on the web leads to the behavior leaking into the real world on things like shop signs.

Don’t even get me started on people who (mostly IRL) write things like “0.99¢” which makes me want to give them a cent and tell them to keep the change.

Literally every year since the internet was created: the dollar sign goes before the number, my dude.

It seems like maybe the commenters here thus far are missing the (obvious from the title) fact that this is not affiliated with Musk or “X” at all? I admire the aggressiveness of this move and I’ll be rooting for them.

Not only do journalists do this all the time now, it’s even a thing within the companies themselves. I previously worked for a company that had been running for 10 years and had over 500 employees and close to $100MM in annual revenue. Every single meeting, one of the executives would use some form of “we’re still just a startup” as an excuse when asked tough questions.

This comes off as the writing of a teenager who’s just been caught and thinks they’re smarter than the adults who caught them. Which checks out because Sam Altman pretty much always acts like an entitled teenager despite being a grown-ass adult.

Just shut the hell up, and fight it out in court, like any competent lawyer will tell you.

Maybe not, but this entire sub thread is about trade secrets (which I think we all agree are not relevant here), and not contract law.

I just pulled up the ChatGPT terms of use and there is no language covering use of trade secrets, so there is no contract covering trade secrets here. So what I originally said (and what you said in your “Without a contract” paragraph) is correct.

If a company voluntarily discloses a trade secret to a member of the public, it ceases to be a trade secret, so I doubt that would apply here either.