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‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets — Amazon, Walmart and Uber are among early adopters that have introduced caps or discouraged wasteful activity (www.ft.com)
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[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Thus transferring their money to openAI, Anthropic etc? How does that help?

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago

They actually lose money as well, because they're proving those tokens at below cost price.

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

It’s all going to Nvidia

[-] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 5 points 4 days ago

those companies arent profitable either and they have same problems in which it costs them more to run their products than they are currently charging people to use it.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

What do you mean by either? Walmart and Amazon make tens of billions in profit a year if not a quarter.

[-] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 5 points 3 days ago

i thought we were talking about OpenAI, antrhropic, etc, not Walmart?

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Did you read the title? It says to spend Walmart and Amazon's money on AI. And you said "those companies aren't profitable either" which would mean, using normal rules of English grammar, that "Walmart and Amazon aren't profitable and OpenAI and Anthropic aren't profitable either". So what are you talking about? What does "either" mean?

[-] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 days ago

ooh I see. my bad. erase the word either from my comment, it wasn't necessary.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

okay, thanks for clarifying. Sorry about having to be kind of pedantic.

[-] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago

oh haha no worries here. I'm often guilty of the same. i don't remember but probably had a sleepy brain when I wrote the original comment

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