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TranscriptScreenshot of a Mastodon post by Kevin Beaumont: "Generative Al government lobbying."

Photo of AI/tech company CEO's, captioned:
We spent a Trillion on NVDA GPUs antide dont have any Al product you want.

Photo of a crying male, captioned:
Please like our Al bro This is the last time bro. So many possibilities bro. Its the future bro. Just need you to like it bro. We worked real hard bro. Our stockholders need this one bro.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ads can barely cover video streaming services. Running an LLM costs orders of magnitude more. Even the paid tiers are starting to throttle usage.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do you think they won't put ads in the paid tiers? They do that with virtually everything else.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They can try, but it won't be enough. The AI bubble is currently predecated on removing $50k a year employees. Nothing short of that is profitable. Everything we have now is being funded by that bet.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You're mistaken. That salary target is much higher.

They want to replace anyone not inbyhe c suite e