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[-] wh0_cares 24 points 2 hours ago

Holy shit, you can even see the weekends.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 hours ago

the sooner the ai bubble bursts and takes down big tech with it the better

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 45 minutes ago

That’s…not how school schedules work.

[-] scintilla@beehaw.org 1 points 48 minutes ago

This is such obvious bullshit lmao. I'm about as anti AI as they come but come the fuck on you must have had friends with schools that started summer break at different dates of the year? Or that other countries exist with different schooling requirements? I know some contries are better but everyone besides places like france probably have students using LLMs.

[-] gnufuu@infosec.pub 8 points 3 hours ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 hours ago

different models, with blue being the most basic and red being also most basic with extra features

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

I like that the fancy models that require money to use are basically stable week round.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 197 points 7 hours ago

What we see here is the real user base of LLM. And 97% of them are free users.

It's hardly a mystery why no AI company is remotely close to making a profit, ever.

[-] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 29 points 3 hours ago

Have we still learned nothing about enshittification? This implication of this graph is that there’s an entire generation of people being raised right now who won’t be able to do jack shit without depending on AI. These companies don’t need to be profitable right now, because once they’re completely entrenched in the workflows and thought processes of millions of people, they can charge whatever they want. Accuracy and usefulness are secondary to addiction and dependency. If you can afford to amass power and ubiquity first, all the profit you can imagine will come later.

[-] vinceman 7 points 3 hours ago

I mean, I failed / dropped out of High school, I'm absolutely fine. I'm not worried for the kids tbh. Kids will always take the path of least resistance when it comes to schoolwork, just the path is now actually getting homework done by an ai instead of just guessing / skipping the assignment. I'm genuinely more worried for all the older generations who don't realize that because of AI honor roll has 0 meaning now.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago

I mean, we have had solid proof that giving children homework is counterproductive for at least 2 decades now. Maybe this will be the final straw that actually makes us listen to the experts and just stop giving children homework

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 66 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yup, I'm surprised the bottom hasn't dropped out from these companies yet. It will be like the dot com crash in the early 2000s I'm guessing. And they'll act so surprised...

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Fuck no, it'll be much worse than the dotcom bubble. If you want to be terrified, look how much of the stock market is NVIDIA and the big tech companies.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 6 hours ago

They're being artificially propped up by billionaires to use as a bludgeon against labor. Profit is less important to them than destroying upward mobility and punishing anyone who thinks about unionizing.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 27 points 5 hours ago

Wish more people caught on to this! The AI wave is not an economic boom and it is not motivated by any sort of consumer demand, it is very much a concerted push by industry to further impoverish the working class on several fronts (Monetary, mental, organizational, etc). That's why it has continued flying in the face of all economic logic for the past several years.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 hours ago

Yes, like the other commenter replied, the Theils and Musks of the world want to go back to feudalism. That’s also why after years of making a big deal that interfering would tarnish the Washington Post, Bezos now seems to not care what happens to it’s reputation because he knows that there isn’t an alternative anymore.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 hours ago

The value isnt the product; that's garbage.

It's the politics of the product. Its the labor discipline, the ability to say 'computer said so'. Why bomb hospital? Computer said so. Yes, i wanted to bomb hospital, but what i wanted didn't factor in! i did it because computer (trained to say bomb hospital) said so!

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Simple evil solution.

Make it part of tuition.

Devil blushes

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

This is why they report "annualized revenue" where they take their best month and multiply it by 12.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Reminder that the bullshit Cursor pulled is entirely legal...

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 hours ago

It doesn’t even have to be a calendar month, it can be the best 30 days in a row times 12. I’d love to be able to report my yearly income that way when applying to apartments, lmao.

[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

Really? Damn, I learned something today. I guess I will report my "annualised" income to the tax office from now on.

Dear tax office, if you're reading this, 1) hi, 2) this is a joke :)

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[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 hours ago

School as in post-secondary? Otherwise June 6 seems early

[-] killabeezio@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

Depends where you live. Where I am at, most schools end at the end of May, but then start around the beginning of August

[-] bigfondue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yea the official end of school was like June 18th when I was in high school, but there is seldom any real work assigned the last couple weeks. Advanced Placement classes have their exams in May then nothing after.

I just checked the calendar and this year June 6th was a Friday which seems like a likely day for the last assignments of the year to be due.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

that's really late where I live. May 28th is when mine got out

[-] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Agreed. My last day of HS was June 12, standard school year schedule. 2nd week of August to 2nd week of June.

[-] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 3 hours ago

In my district in Arkansas school ended May 28th

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

same in florida

[-] artifex@piefed.social 62 points 7 hours ago

There have been scarier graphs in the 2020s 🙄

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 18 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, I can think of a few, mostly having to do with the massive pandemic that happened.

[-] morto@piefed.social 11 points 2 hours ago

Climate change wants to have a chat with you

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 1 points 52 minutes ago

True, though those have been scary since long before the 2020s.

[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

we at least sort of survived the pandemic. the ai bubble will probably do much more damage, considering the safety nets that barely held society together during covid lockdowns are now completely gone

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 42 minutes ago

I don’t think you’re appreciating just how many people died in the pandemic.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 49 points 7 hours ago

June 6th is not when school's out over here.

So is the hypothesis that OpenAI's usage is heavily regionally skewed to... wherever classes end that date? I'm guessing US, because that's what I guess when somebody forgets there's a planet attached to their country.

[-] seaplant@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 hours ago

Yeah that kind of coordination coming from the end of the school year doesn't make sense. Zooming out a bit it looks like there was just a spike in May 2025. It was all useage of a particular model, OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini, which barely registers outside of these short periods of high use in March and then May of 2025. I don't really know what a 'token' is so maybe it's not a 1:1 comparison when useage shifts between different models? Or the data's bad? Or some particular project used that model a large amount in those specific months?

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 6 points 2 hours ago

A token is the "word" equivalent as far as AI is concerned. It's just not a full word, it's whatever unit of meaning the neural network has decided makes sense (so "ish" can be a token by itself, for instance). Point is, tokens processed is just a proxy for "amount of text the thing spat out".

At a glance, and I haven't looked into it, this looks like a product launch or a product getting replaced or removed, maybe putting something free behind a paywall or whatever. Definitely not the school year ending in a particular place. It's pretty clearly misinfo, I'd just have to do more homework to figure out what kind than I'm willing to do for this purpose, but your assessment definitely makes a ton more sense than the OP.

[-] hamms@lemmy.world 37 points 6 hours ago

Schools in the US don't all follow the same schedule; it varies drastically state to state, and can even vary by district within any given state.

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[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 35 points 7 hours ago

hahahahahaha holy shit it's not even a scaled graph jesus christ

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Yeah without doing any research a consistent 2/3 drop is actually pretty damn compelling. Saving this to check back when US schools restart in a month

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