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[–] superkret@feddit.org -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, but also, running Youtube costs about 10x as much as both are paying.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

10x may be too much, but they're definitely ~~losing money with~~ spending money on it. Lots.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Any source? Last I heard Alphabet was making mad bank

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Now spending/ investing money I believe. But I bet you the hell that they are going to be using all of their YouTube data to train llms and probably sell that training data. At some point. There's no way they won't be making bank

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Only if you didn't count the data scraping for advertisement part.