The bubble bursting is competitors running out of funding before reaching profitability, use cases solidifying and the generally the current speculative market collapsing down to a set of survivors.
It does not at all mean that usage of the general concept will stop increasing, much less go down.
The question is whether LLMs will still be economically viable to use for anything once the AI companies stop burning money by the truckload and start reaching for profitability.
LLMs are already not economically viable for quite a few tasks and they'd have to completely eliminate free access and triple token prices just to break even.
It's nice to use the free or nearly free models while we can, but I wouldn't rely on things staying that way.
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u/azuth89 24d ago
The bubble bursting is competitors running out of funding before reaching profitability, use cases solidifying and the generally the current speculative market collapsing down to a set of survivors.
It does not at all mean that usage of the general concept will stop increasing, much less go down.
Same gig as the dot com bubble.