• bigbangdangler@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Sigh. None of this is surprising in the least. The cost of AI infrastructure and compute (coupled with the complexity of the chain) makes it prohibitively expensive.

    It only has appeared cheap because of investor money flowing like Niagara on the off-chance that it could be made cheap enough to be profitable after getting everyone addicted to using it. I really don’t think it’s there, and it’s definitely not cheap enough to continue flying for free much longer.

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      17 hours ago

      I don’t understand how everyone repeats this shit… as if we have never ever before seen a renewable asset… no, it’s not expensive to run them. It is expensive to give away usage. It is expensive to train. It is expensive to buy hardware. It is very very cheap to run. But hypercapitalism ruins everyone

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        4 hours ago

        So how do they get back the money spent on hardware and training? They also have to update their hardware occasionally. It is expensive to run.

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      2 days ago

      There will be some major bag holders soon. Who’s is gonna be? The funnelers or the funnelees? How does MS bounce back having integrated copilot into everything?

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        2 days ago

        Given the recent NASDAQ changes, looks like US pension funds will end up with the bag. What a scam.

        Microslop can suck it.

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          2 days ago

          So a massive wealth transfer - right after Covid, ANOTHER unprecedented wealth transfer.

          Side question: when are you people in the imperial core going to do something about this with all that God given Liberty™ and Freedom® you continually bomb and destabilize the rest of us for?