It’s also desirable for them because it decreases people building their own computers and pushing more people to buying premade ones they sell.
This isn’t typical price gouging. It’s an industry moving away from consumers because our buying power is nothing compared to large corporations running on AI circlejerk VCs.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
No, the endgame is for all the compute power to be in the cloud, and you rent time on their servers.
Everyone will just be running thin clients at home, with subscriptions if they need to do anything more than send an email
monotremata@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I mean, it is also that OpenAI cornered the RAM market, which is a typical price gouging scenario; it’s just weird that OpenAI wasn’t trying to make money directly through the maneuver. It does seem like they wanted prices to rise, though, to increase the barrier to competition.
eldebryn@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s almost like unregulated capitalism is a certain highway to oligarchy and authoritarianism.