Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoWell it’s Anthropic, creators of Claude. It’s a way to show off and convince people AI can do it. $20k is what it would cost you or me, but it’s just free for them.
I don’t even hate AI but it’s kinda sickening the way they overstate the capabilities. But let me tell you how excited the top leadership at my company is about this…
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No it isn’t. This is not regular software where the bulk of the price is the licensing. With slope-as-a-service, the bulk of the price is the data center operation cost - which Anthropic is certainly not getting for free.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean there is a cost associated with it, just like there is a cost associated with having free soda in the break room, but it was free for the person doing the project. It’s absorbed into operational costs.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Considering how these companies are losing money because they subsidize these tokens - I doubt that cost is really absorbed.