Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point

• cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They do know how to monetize it. API access generated $1Billion in 2023.

  And all that $1B revenue cost them was a $5B loss! www.wheresyoured.at/howmuchmoney/

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  • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes my second paragraph alleged as much. Not that you read that far of course.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People pay for the “premium” because they believe the makers who said it can increase their profitability and make them money.

  My employer keeps trying to shove it down our throats too.

  They’re desperate to find anyway to make it reduce work, be cause they’ve already paid for it under the assumption it would let them cut staffing

  Now they’re finding out they got swindled, do you think they’ll re-up on AI?

  The AI companies offloaded how to monetize it to consumers and scared them into being left behind unless they discovered how to use it.

  It’s a short term bubble.

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• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AI having to wait on cold fusion for profitability is one of the funnier concepts I’ve heard today, thank you.

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  • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s being used to research fusion too

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know, I regularly sleep with one of the researchers involved with several similar pojects (aren’t I cool). Fascinating stuff though! Very much not comparable to commercial LLMs, though.

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