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Sigh. None of this is surprising in the least. The cost of AI infrastructure and compute (coupled with the complexity of the chain) makes it prohibitively expensive.
It only has appeared cheap because of investor money flowing like Niagara on the off-chance that it could be made cheap enough to be profitable after getting everyone addicted to using it. I really don't think it's there, and it's definitely not cheap enough to continue flying for free much longer.
I don't understand how everyone repeats this shit.. as if we have never ever before seen a renewable asset.. no, it's not expensive to run them. It is expensive to give away usage. It is expensive to train. It is expensive to buy hardware. It is very very cheap to run. But hypercapitalism ruins everyone
So how do they get back the money spent on hardware and training? They also have to update their hardware occasionally. It is expensive to run.
Is your argument that training is expensive and therefore it is expensive to run?