What’s funnier is that typically the AI providers lose money on every query their customers make. So, this may have cost some company $500m to Anthropic, but it cost Anthropic a whole lot more than that.
maybe they are planning ahead for the business model in a few years time, when nobody can do any work without claude, and they get to charge their preferred “monopoly enshittification” price?
Oh, it’s changing the world alright. It’s burning more resources than just finding some skilled people. It guzzles water and electricity and whatever it cost to make those wafers.
So, not a net positive since at some point, this may become a hellscape.
What’s funnier is that typically the AI providers lose money on every query their customers make. So, this may have cost some company $500m to Anthropic, but it cost Anthropic a whole lot more than that.
What a brilliant business model.
maybe they are planning ahead for the business model in a few years time, when nobody can do any work without claude, and they get to charge their preferred “monopoly enshittification” price?
They make it up in volume.
(Volume being how much they shout about how it’s going to change the world and dupe more people into investing.)
Oh, it’s changing the world alright. It’s burning more resources than just finding some skilled people. It guzzles water and electricity and whatever it cost to make those wafers.
So, not a net positive since at some point, this may become a hellscape.