I use many hundreds of dollars in GPT tokens per month, likely over a thousand dollars some months, yet I only pay the dirt-cheap subscription fee. How is this sustainable?
>>109053175American and Chinese Tech is an economic warfare system meaning the money is primarily raised under the assumption that the companies are to damage geopolitical competitors.
its not, the idea is youll eventually get addicted and want to spend 10 thousand dollars generating a porn a month
??? Who said its suposed to be sustainable? Its a speculative service paid for by speculators hoping to get an outsized return. If it doesn't catch on that was already well within their risk profile.
how do you figure out how many tokens you're using and how much they really cost to burn?
>>109053175The plan is they'll get the world convinced that AI is The Best Shit Ever and you can't live without it.Then prices can be jacked up sky-high and you've got no choice but to pay up like the addicted little junkie you are.
>>109053175>How is this sustainable?It isn't. We are in a bubble. It is going to burst.
>>109053175They probably still make a bit of money with your sub. It's just that the margins on API is giant when it comes to variable costs.Their cost is on training, not on inference. So each additional sub makes them a bit of money to cover for training. They are not doing you a favor.
>>109053175>VCs invest stupid amount of money into a flaming debt pit>create infrastructure so that chat bots can perform ERP, summarize emails, and vibecode>hilariously high burn rate>pump the stocks of Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung>claim competition with China for achieving AGI>launch megacap IPOs utterly detached from real fiscal performance>every megacorporation and holdings buys each others' stocks at ATH>whales sell for exit liquidity>everyone realizes too late that you actually need to earn profit off of AI>securities and debts bubble bursts>NASDAQ nosedives>index funds shit the bed>401Ks and pensions are wiped out>government bailout>AI bubble aftermath is documented>"never again" news and legislation blitz>a few large AI providers survive and become a public utility like the internet
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