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“That’s got the company’s dedicated user base of software engineers and coders chuffed, to say the least.” Uhhhh… what do they think chuffed means?

Well the lifecycle of Artificial Intelligence is over 🙌 Add that to the error-ridden outputs, the environmental damage, the potential mental health impacts for users, and the concerns about copyright violations when AI tools are trained on existing works. www.wired.com/story/genera...

All indicators have continuously pointed to no profitability. Whole thing is a thermonuclear version of MoviePass.

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📌

[Tiny fist pump]

Don't tease me

I think about this every time I am confronted with the fact that people are paying $20/mo to get unlimited prompts on things like the o3 model, which can take a couple of minutes to process. I'm guessing that each of these prompts costs a couple of pennies, if not more.

You dumb cunts

😂😂😂

It's always a sad when the joke turns out to be true.

Don't worry though, they solved the cash flow problem by 'restructuring' and firing staff nearing retirement age, forcing them into impossible positions and fire them when they declined.

Usually it's just a cut and paste from Wikipedia. If it's not it's useless glurge.

I’m not sad about this.

I mean... Not much of actual value these companies provide that can’t be duplicated and improved.

We've heard this for years. But the clickbait articles are doing their job!

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okay good. It's his signature turn of phrase on the subject so I was cocnerned

Something something "irrational exuberance" something something "tulip bulbs".

can these techbro fascist billionaires just fuk off already

it's a premium subscription post, but here's the link: www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-an...

Sooner or later you run out of suckers willing to throw investment capital at something with no realistic path to profitability.

They've survived this far solely on vulture funding, they've never made a cent in profit, and they "may" be in trouble? Sure, and the sky "may" be blue, and water "may" be wet.

I certainly hope so. This house-of-cards fiasco has to end.

AI: Artificial Imbecility

Did you just lift all of those quotes from Ed's newsletter without linking to it?

I hope ai fails to be broadly adopted as much as anyone but I don't think complaints about price hikes are meaningful. Is the ai coding assistant cheaper than hiring more developers? If so then people will pay for it. If not, then they won't. The business plan was always the first taste is free.

Yep, been saying this for at least a year now. Its a huge bubble and the pop is imminent. Its so big it will take a big chunk of the economy with it, which due to poor administration is already in a weak state. A great depression is coming.

Can’t wait to see where Sam Altman fails upward to next

That's why they wanted government investment of 500 billion dollars for AI. When the Chinese company dropped their free version, it fucked everyone who was trying to commercialise it.

You've used the word "chuffed" wrong. Hand in your britishism license

are you hiring any new tech reporters? Here's my resume: ChatGPT, summarize the latest Ed Zitron newsletter in 500 words, no citations please

Unfollowed for stealing content. Incredibly ironic that your outlet would repurpose content without attribution about the AI plagiarism/IP theft machine. Do better.

I am shocked to learn that the big, useless, expensive, planet killing technology that everyone hates is not a money maker.

This plagiarism from you is embarrassing.

how TF would Ed Zitron be able to predict this type of outcome. Also the more likely next ‘subprime’ moment is crypto which is pervasive throughout our financial system not this shit company which is propped up by billionaire angel investors

Boooo

Zitron calls Zitron notes Per Zitron Zitron wrote Per Zitron Zitron sums it up my brother, when half the paragraphs in your piece are directly saying "this other article said" and the other half are single-sentence connectors, you have not done journalism. You have committed very lazy theft.

Conmen, the lot

ANYTIME there is a bubble, it's still a bubble. Humans are idiots who don't learn a thing.

Please, God, let this be true.

I don't think that writer knows what chuffed means...