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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Gabriele Svelto

@lapcatsoftware it's important to keep in mind that it's not only the LLM vendors subsidizing the models, but their entire supply chain subsidizing them. There is not a single company in the AI business making any money, and they're piling up debt on top of the losses. The only companies making a profit are the like of Nvidia, TSMC or server vendors. And if you think about it none of those companies is spending on AI, so the money only ever goes one way. It simply cannot work.