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Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit (www.theregister.com)
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[–] brie 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What is AI gold then?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Autonomous vehicles, robotics, LLMs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

nah its whitelabelling AI credits. You build an API connector, charge 3x for a credit and sell it to a business.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Obsolescence of human workers/employees.

[–] brie 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Makes no sense given that 80% of jobs are bullshit jobs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not sure you understood my point. The "Gold" that people search for when trying to push "AI" is that they have to pay less wages, because they need fewer employees. Wherever they find it, or not is irrelevant.

Automation was always heralded as a time saver, but do employees really need to work less to get the same amount of money? No, because automation is always used to give the top percentages more money for less work, not the workers or the broad public.