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by UncleEntity 149 days ago
>> Sam Altman has said “We’re profitable on inference. If we didn’t pay for training, we’d be a very profitable company.”

Any individual Sunday service is nearly cost free if we don't calculate in the 100+ years it took to build the church...
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apf6 149 days ago
Lol anyway, the point is that even in a scenario where all the major models disappeared tomorrow (including OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), we would still keep using the existing open source models (GLM, Deepseek, Qwen) for a long long time.

There's no scenario where AI goes away completely.

I don't think the "major AI services go away completely" scenario is realistic at all when you look at those companies' revenue and customer demand, but that's a different debate I guess.

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blibble 149 days ago
> There's no scenario where AI goes away completely.

the scenario is if training becomes impossible (for any reason), then the currently available models quickly become out of date

say this had happened 30 years ago

today, would you be using an "AI" that only supported up to COBOL?

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