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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This sounds like the VC money is running out and the subsidies will soon end.

Don’t you worry, the AI companies already gobbled up the entire Internets worth of data, every conversation they could find on their social media networks to train their machine.

And just like Uber, you’ll now have to pay a premium to use their service when it finally works. Don’t worry they’ll still give you the stupid auto complete chat bot and tell you that’s the real AI, The real AI works for the corporate captured government and is figuring out how to get rid of you. Their goal is not enlightenment of the human race, It’s depopulation and control.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This sounds like the VC money is running out

Nah. It sounds like they're in the dump phase of the pump-and-dump.

And just like Uber, you’ll now have to pay a premium to use their service when it finally works.

But Uber still isn't any more expensive than contemporary taxi rides (which were already exorbitant thanks to municipal cartelization and bad urban planning). These AI services aren't a problem as a function of cost (OpenAI and Anthropic are still both giant pits of burning cash) they're a problem as a function of... function. Like, every agent still needs a professional babysitter or three. The tech debt these features generate often outstrip their real business value. And the tail risks are enormous.

I hail an Uber, I get in the vehicle, I ride to my destination, I pay the fee. That's no different than a taxi service in any meaningful sense save the interface.

I install an AI agent, I issue a command, , uh... profit? Apparently I can now cancel my Sales Force subscription because now I've got eighteen thousand automagically generated Power BI reports blowing up my email using info from databases that got organically spun up on my Amazon account to do god even knows what? Hooray! Optimized!

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been waiting for this to happen. People don't generally understand datacenters. You have to bring in an unending stream of bare metal in one side to keep them updated and they're using the fastest, most expensive hardware available, and it's so cutting edge, it's obsolete a couple years after they install it. There is no way those measly $200 claude accounts are paying for themselves without VC.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't see this sentiment enough. It's not like they'll buy the graphics cards now and then be done with it, they have to keep buying it over and over again. It's a rolling expense. Given that the manufacturers can't keep up with the supposed demand as it is, there's just no chance it'd ever be sustainable from that perspective alone. Nevermind the massive rolling cost it'd incur.

It was never going to work.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It works if someone corners the market and everyone else gives up. Every single VC thinks they're the company that is going to do that.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There is no "real AI". That's why the money is drying up.

That's not to say they won't exploit all that data on the way out, though.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Just a few more interest rates bro