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by simonw 8 days ago
This is not a credible presentation:

> If you paid for that usage through a standard API, those 10 billion tokens would cost you around $15,000 a year. That is the real unsubsidized price. No discounts, no incentives, just the raw compute costs.

The standard API pricing is not the raw compute cost. Making that claim in the first minute of the video discredits the entire thing.

(Here's the full MacWhisper transcript: https://gist.github.com/simonw/991dde81b95fa4436f46517c3c1a4... )

And yeah, if you work your way through the whole thing it's mostly breathless hype based around shaky premises.