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I mean we haven’t figured out how to make AI profitable yet, and though it’s a cool technology with real world use cases, nobody has proven yet that the juice is worth the squeeze. There’s an unimaginable amount of money tied up in a technology on the hope that one day they find a way to make it profitable and though AI as a technology “improves”, its journey towards providing more value than it costs to run is not.

If I roleplayed as somebody who desperately wanted AI to succeed, my first question would be “What is the plan to have AI make money?” And so far nobody, not even the technology’s biggest sycophants have an answer.

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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The profit of ai lies in this: mass surveillance and ads. Thats it.

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- EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The revenue of AI lies in mass surveillance and ads. But even going full dystopia, that has not been enough to make AI companies profitable.
  
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  - bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Millennials are killing the mass surveillance and advertising industry!
    
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drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
AI is absolutely profitable just not for everybody.

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- EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  AI as a technology is so far not profitable for anybody. The hardware AI runs on is profitable, as might be some start ups that are heavily leveraging AI, but actually operating AI is so far not profitable, and because increasingly smaller improvements in AI use exponentially more power, there’s no real path that is visible to any of us today that suggests anyone’s yet found a path to profitability. Aside from some kind of miracle out of left field that no one today has even conceived, the long term outlook isn’t great.
  
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  - drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Absolute delusion right here
    
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    EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Delusion? Ok let’s get it straight from the horse’s mouth then. I’ve asked ChatGPT if OpenAI is profitable, and to explain its financial outlook. What you see below, emphasis and emojis, are generated by ChatGPT:
    
    OpenAI is not currently profitable. Despite its rapid growth, the company continues to operate at a substantial loss.
    
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    Annual recurring revenue (ARR) was reported at approximately $12 billion as of July 2025, implying around $1 billion per month in revenue YouTube+2Hacker News+2 Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At+4Reuters+4PYMNTS.com+4.
    
    Projected total revenue for 2025 is $12.7 billion, up from roughly $3.7 billion in 2024 Tap Twice Digital SaaStr.
    
    However, OpenAI’s cash burn has increased, with projected operational losses around $8 billion in 2025 alone
    
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- frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Who is it profitable for right now? The only ones I see are the ones selling shovels in a gold rush, like Nvidia.
  
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  - drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Every AI software company? So much ignorance in this thread its almost impossible to respond to. Llm queries are super cheap already and very much profitable.
    
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