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this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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I suspect the plan was to dump it on everyone for free, get everyone reliant on it, then jack up the prices to make the investment back. Classic big tech play book, did it with cloud storage, did it with web hosting, did it with ride share.
But people haven’t really picked it up en mass, let alone made it something they’re reliant on. So they can’t jack up the price to pay for the cost of building out all the infrastructure. So they’re doubling down and trying to force it on everyone, hoping that somehow that will get people reliant on it.
It could be prices. It could also be information.
If you can get people suck on your generative tech, in any capacity, you get them stuck on a service that can tweak and filter the truth in real time, and whose statements aren't accountable to anyone. This is maybe a bit more valuable than money.
The Elon / grok white genocide gaffe from a few days ago is really funny because he is and always has been an inept moron, but there's the evidence. It is definitely scary.
Oh, it is way worse than that.