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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tech giants will ruin AI with monetization.

AI is completely unaffordable right now. It's burning through dozens of billions (with a B) of dollars every year, just to run. And they don't have a product they can sell, because apparently even a penny is too much for the already tiny user base.

Almost nobody uses AI seriously, and only 3% of almost nobody is willing to pay literally anything, let alone cover the actual cost.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

I'd amend that to already tiny intentional userbase. Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Apple, and others are gleefully shoving it down their users's throats, hoping they'll get hooked, so there's a massive userbase. I suspect this is exactly why only 3% are willing to pay - they're a portion of the tiny group who actually signed up.