"The very foundation of every AI startup is economically broken. The majority of them sell some sort of “deep research” report feature that costs several dollars to generate at a time, and many sell some form of expensive coding product, tool-based web search features, and many other products that exist to keep a user engaged while burning tokens, all without explaining to the user “yeah, we’re spending way more than we make off of you, this is an introductory rate.”" https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/