• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    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.

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        44 minutes ago

        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?

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        5 hours ago

        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.)

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          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.