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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (4 children)

This is something I've been speculating for a while. The cost of running these complex systems (as OpenAI models aren't just LLMs) is subsidized so heavily that we don't really know the cost of running these things.

This is a huge risk to any business, as the price for these services has to go up significantly in the long term.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If they are losing money on $200/month, that does not necessarily mean they lose money on the $20/month.

One is unlimited, the other is not. You only have to use the $200 subscription more than 10 times the amount the $20 subscription allows for OpenAI to earn less on that subscription.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago

We already know they're losing money on everything

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

really looking forward to how these multi-billion dollar AI datacenter investments will work out for big tech companies

that said I'm pretty sure most of that capacity is reserved for the surveillance state anyway

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[–] lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 31 points 4 days ago (4 children)

By "Sam Altman said" in a "series of posts", this article means these two tweets from 10 hours ago: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1876104580070813976.
This is a screenshot of a tweet talking about an article written about two tweets by Sam Altman. Is this really the world we're living in, now?

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, and I think you're pretending it's more ridiculous than it is

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[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Can someone explain the Pale Horse reference?

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