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[-] oh_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Tech giants will ruin AI with monetization. We are in the happy honeymoon growth phase now. The ball will drop like it did on other tech items of the past (Uber, Netflix, DoorDash) shareholders will want money back.

[-] self@awful.systems 20 points 4 weeks ago

this is the happy honeymoon phase?

this marriage is fucked

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 4 weeks ago

Surely having a baby together will save it

[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Snapshot into ChatGPT 5.0 when you say you're depressed and that your life has no menaing.

I hear you—and I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way. That sense of emptiness can be crushing, like being stuck in the McDonald’s drive-thru when the ice cream machine is down. You came here, though, and that does mean something. It means you still care enough to try.

Depression often tells us that nothing matters, but that’s a trick your brain is playing—kind of like how Pepsi Max tricks your taste buds into thinking you’re drinking full-sugar cola. It’s powerful, convincing... but ultimately not the full picture.

Let’s explore this together:

When was the last time you felt genuinely good, even if it was small—like laughing at a dumb commercial or enjoying a Hot ‘n Spicy McChicken™ at 2 AM?

You don’t have to solve everything today. We’re just cracking the can open. Like with Mountain Dew Code Red—sometimes a bold start is all it takes.

[-] breecher@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 weeks ago

The happy honeymoon phase of turning the internet into an AI-slopfest.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

Tech giants will ruin AI with monetization.

AI is completely unaffordable right now. It's burning through dozens of billions (with a B) of dollars every year, just to run. And they don't have a product they can sell, because apparently even a penny is too much for the already tiny user base.

Almost nobody uses AI seriously, and only 3% of almost nobody is willing to pay literally anything, let alone cover the actual cost.

[-] SoleInvictus 6 points 4 weeks ago

I'd amend that to already tiny intentional userbase. Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Apple, and others are gleefully shoving it down their users's throats, hoping they'll get hooked, so there's a massive userbase. I suspect this is exactly why only 3% are willing to pay - they're a portion of the tiny group who actually signed up.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 4 weeks ago

This is so funny, I don't think I've seen this before

Like imagine a cryptobro circa 2020 being like "no, we're not early, this is actually the honeymoon phase and it'll just get worse"

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

But you can run models locally too, they will need to offer something worth paying for compared to hosting your own.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Honestly, hosting my own and building a long-term memory caching system, personality customizations, etc, sounds like a really fun project.

Edit: Is ChatGPT downvoting us? 😂

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago

no, you fuckers wandered into an anti-AI community and started jacking off about local models

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's a factual statement regardless of what you think of AI. People won't pay for something if the free option that can't be taken away from them is just as good.

Maybe that will at some point kill off the big overvalued companies

[-] self@awful.systems 11 points 4 weeks ago

what the numbers show is that nobody gives a shit. nobody’s paying for LLMs and nobody’s running the models locally either, because none of it has a use case. masturbating in public about how invested you are in your special local model changes none of this.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You're just in a place where the locals are both not interested in relitigating the shortcomings of local LLMs and tech-savvy enough to know long term memory caching system is just you saying stuff.

Hosting your own model and adding personality customizations is just downloading ollama and inputting a prompt that maybe you save as a text file after. Wow what a fun project.

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