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Let's keep the politics and business side of things to a minimum.
No memes
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.
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.
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.
Huh, my brain costs just as much to use as it did last week.
Idk about that, food prices are increasing quite rapidly
Touché
Lol. Guess it’s time everyone found out.
that has the potential to
Of course it has "the potential to", that's the whole fucking point of this change.
The compute hardware required to give you that obsequious-chatbot-on-demand is phenomenal. AI as a whole has been burning billions upon billions of dollars getting to these lofty heights where it's alleged that everyone's job is threatened, any day now.
And now's the time to get to the other side of the equation, the dreaded return on investment, where people have to pay what it actually costs (plus a modest amount for that actual return).
Whether Microsoft has actually managed to get enough people hooked on the particular brand of crack they're selling is questionable. In any case it'll be fun to watch at least.
and/or people cosplaying as devs
They’re just trying to help developers reach the target Jensen Huang set, that developers should be spending half their salaries on tokens. Now you can do that so much more quickly.
It’s how you build the biggest bubble.