Mastodawn

LLM access is relatively cheap now because the LLM vendors are discounting their price at a massive loss, subsidized by VC, in order to get you addicted and to drive as much skilled human labor as possible out of the workforce permanently.

The goal is monopolization, and if they’re successful, you’ll see monopolistic pricing in the future.

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Arcticulate

@lapcatsoftware Yes, we saw this in Europe, in the Nordics, between home-electronic retailers back in early 2010s. The German company Media Saturn launched the German-worded ”MediaMarkt” in Sweden, with crazy low prices. They tried to get their competition out and then the plan seems to have been shock-raising prices on electronics, especially TVs. They failed, though: their main competitor was the same whale-sized behemoth as them, more or less, but smaller chains collapsed.