Uber also just burned money forever before they price hiked. I think again, this is just gaining market share. Make sure there's few people left who can write or research or do art because it was all done by the "cheap" machine and then you can hike the prices and have a near monopoly on it.
I'm not sure that'll pan out though. Nobody drives a taxi as a hobby. People do create art as a hobby, or write, or even do research.
Where it might pan out* is clerical work. LLMs will never be able to do actual work unsupervised. But if you can fire 100+ laywers in favor of one guy who fixes the LLM's mistakes, then its probably profitable. Art, writing and creative works in general are a red herring. It's a promise to the masses that they'll be able to conjure whatever entertainment they want, meanwhile the company is working to rugpull them out of what social mobility still exists.
*and even then I can't imagine there won't be a massive bubble burst incoming. The current business model loses money. Fullstop. LLM doesn't seem a good fit for a consumer good.
And honestly for that use in particular it’s actually a pretty decent tool. Like, in a socialist system under common ownership that sounds like a good tool for reducing unnecessary human labor.
That’s not what we’re doing, to be clear, but I do appreciate when we can glimpse what actual use these things do have
Uber also just burned money forever before they price hiked. I think again, this is just gaining market share. Make sure there's few people left who can write or research or do art because it was all done by the "cheap" machine and then you can hike the prices and have a near monopoly on it.
I'm not sure that'll pan out though. Nobody drives a taxi as a hobby. People do create art as a hobby, or write, or even do research.
Where it might pan out* is clerical work. LLMs will never be able to do actual work unsupervised. But if you can fire 100+ laywers in favor of one guy who fixes the LLM's mistakes, then its probably profitable. Art, writing and creative works in general are a red herring. It's a promise to the masses that they'll be able to conjure whatever entertainment they want, meanwhile the company is working to rugpull them out of what social mobility still exists.
*and even then I can't imagine there won't be a massive bubble burst incoming. The current business model loses money. Fullstop. LLM doesn't seem a good fit for a consumer good.
And honestly for that use in particular it’s actually a pretty decent tool. Like, in a socialist system under common ownership that sounds like a good tool for reducing unnecessary human labor.
That’s not what we’re doing, to be clear, but I do appreciate when we can glimpse what actual use these things do have