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[–] Humana@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (4 children)

That is the end game of AI. They are free now as they are in disruption and growth phase with lots of competition. But in a few years most will have gone bust or been acquired until only 2-3 remain. Society will become dependent on them, and then they will roll out expensive subscriptions.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

„Then“ they will roll out expensive subscriptions?????
ChatGPT already at $200/mo you don’t consider this expensive yet?

[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The free tier still exists. Soon it will be infested with ads. But they will only make this shift after getting enough people hooked.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I was just pointing out that this comment made it kinda sound like $200 is not an expensive subscription

[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, 200 is a bit ridiculous

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's why I think is important to find a way to "community" train models, so there's always a free open source alternative.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago

or keep a place like lemmy free of bots, so we can exchange and search information still.

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Unless we get Mad Max instead.. I'm still really hopeful for mutually assured Destruction! Dystopian LamePunk isn't a future I'm onboard with.

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[–] yesman@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

All that electricity ain't free, and the TechBros sure don't want to pay the light bill. It's not good enough that LLMs and their successors be useful and successful. Unless they change the whole economy, lots of somebodies have been burning trillions of dollars.

Its effectively a stochastic ponzii scheme where instead of being spent they just turn the money directly into entropy to noise-up all knowledge. It might genuinely ha:e been more productive to light it all on fire.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago
[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Once we can no longer search for answers.... They will start charging for giving us ... Edited answers

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dude I fucking hope every AI chatbot get put behind a paywall soon. Do you know how quickly these pointless AI assistants would die?

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago

People will still pay for it because consumerism or smth.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why would I want a worse answer for money?

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Marketing, that's all it is. Companies know how to make ads convincing you that you need their product.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

Too bad they have forgotten how to make good products.

[–] Vroomfondel@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Really? What apps in particular? Asking, because I have not come across "extra payment for unrequested AI" yet.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

OneDrive: we are putting up the price of our family plan significantly.

Also one drive: look at all the new AI stuff we have added to your plan

(Also OneDrive: yes your 6 person plan is for sharing but you can't share the new stuff we've added to your sharing plan)

[–] Vroomfondel@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, ok. Sounds bad, sorry for you! - I am not using OneDrive. Neither paid or unpaid.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 days ago

I am not either - anymore 😆. I have been running Nextcloud for years, but this was the push I needed to bring everyone on my OneDrive plan onto Nextcloud instead.

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago

Google added a AI at the top of search results with a premium version that's supposed to be better somehow.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

If only it did, instead of just doing it

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Don’t want AI on google?

Easy peasy just type -noai after your search string.

Don't want to get hit in the face? Easy. Just say "Don't hit me in the face" every time someone walks in the room.

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Don't want AI on your search?

Easy peasy just use Duck Duck Go.

Bonus: So many things but also no more captcha on every search because they don't like you protecting your own privacy.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Well Fackkk...

[–] LAN_Mower@lemmybefree.net 1 points 4 days ago

DDG is amazing. They do have the option of AI though with duck.ai. Their products are great. I may be a bit bias, I've been using it for 12 years.

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There is no way that actually works. Its probably going to show me porn or something.

Edit: What the fuck ?! (it works)

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago

IDK like 200 million people???

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hey man it’d be better than what we got now

It didnt say a swer that correctly.