• Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    20 hours ago

    Did people not realise big tech has been largely subsidising the cost of AI usage in order to get people on-board?

    The cost was always going to go up eventually, and it will go up again because those “hyperscaling” data-centres cost a lot of money, and the investors want their money back and then some.

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      17 hours ago

      Those “people” are executives, and no, they didn’t. Those fucking morons thought they could replace people, amd they tried first chance they got. This should be a wakeup call for everyone, everyone to unionize against these rich, greedy piles of shit literal morons.

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      They weren’t hiding this information. OpenAI Burns $2.30 for every $1 they charge the customer. They want us to use LLMs for every facet of our lives so we have no choice when they crank the cost up.