AI Profitability Concerns
The cluster focuses on debates about the high costs of running AI models, current lack of profitability for AI companies due to investor subsidies, and whether AI can achieve sustainable economics compared to human labor.
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You are ignoring costsThe AI companies are currently lighting dollars on fire if you pay them a few pennies to do so.The AI models are actually accomplishing something, but the unit economics aren't there to support it being profitable
I must be dense, why does this imply AI can't be profitable?
AI isn't going to be any cheaper
Here is to hoping someone can find a use case for ai that brings in more value than it costs
Who's paying for the cost of the AI?
You're probably going to end up switching around for daily limits.Just note that no one is paying the real cost of AI, if they were, it would be plain to see that hiring a human is way cheaper. So burn that M$FT and VC money while you can.
It costs way more to run the AI than the equivalent human labor. No one is paying the actual costs.
you spend 400$ per month on api usage, but your AI builds the next unicorn worth billions, where is the problem?
Well, it's simple: AI is getting cheaper, humans are getting more expensive.
AI doesn't have to better, or even 90% as good. It just has to be cheaper.