• LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    At some point they will have to monetize and that’s going to be a bad day for everyone.

    Imagine having halved your workforce, suddenly you have to pay for compute at what it actually costs.

    If they don’t find a new thing to sell to their shareholders they will have to monetize.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzBanned from community
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      4 个月前

      And good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps…

    • Michal@programming.dev
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      Well, the key word is “right now”. AI companies are gambling that their runway is long enough to reach monetization.