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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 28 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

Yeah, this is the biggest question for all the LLMs. When are they actually going to turn a profit and how?

They seem to be doing the Uber model of flooding the market to then hike prices, but I don't see how people are going to be able to afford it. I guess it is just training them to then sell them to companies?

[–] OperationOgre@hexbear.net 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I guess it is just training them to then sell them to companies?

The company I work for is pressuring every single department to onboard "AI", and there is so much talk of "training" the LLMs we will buy to suit our needs. I imagine lots of other companies are demanding the same of their employees right now

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

My org have been talking about hiring "AI consultants". I wanted to flip a table over and storm out when that was mentioned. There's no shortage of better things to spend money on.

[–] OperationOgre@hexbear.net 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I need to get in on this grift before I'm laid off lmao

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 6 points 19 hours ago

Yep, working in a safety critical environment and constantly hear how safety reports will be made by personally tailored AI and requirements developed and managed with AI. Then the natural step is to hire AI consultants to do that. Fuckin hell it's looking bleak. And because every business executive thinks this is the solution, it'll become a race to the bottom because all capital will also go to those dumbass ideas, then all people capable of doing work without AI will be replaced by those who do it less well with AI over time. I'm entirely unconvinced that this will be good (despite the fact historically that such advances have been fine, like with calculators or computers generally). This time we don't KNOW how the solution is reached..

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