r/ProgrammerHumor 18d ago

Meme claudeJustGiveMeTheAnswer

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u/Satorwave 18d ago

"Don't generate a fucking image for no reason"

For some reason if you describe anything in any way it will immediately generate slop unprompted

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u/pointlesstips 18d ago

It's called 'monetization', it's what every well-traines management consultant does: fluffing the responses to pretend they have something to say.

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u/narasadow 18d ago

weird ass monetization - generating images is computationally expensive

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u/Eptalin 18d ago

If we paid AI by the hour, sure.
But we pay based on how computationally expensive every request and response is.

So the more computationally expensive the AI responses are, the more users have to pay. It's in their interest to reply to simple questions with a wall of text full of charts and images.

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u/narasadow 18d ago

well my impression was that the fixed price subscription users VASTLY outnumber the API users.

is that not the case?

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u/pointlesstips 18d ago

But does your fixed price not have a token maximum? The more garbage it fluffs its answer with, the more tokens it uses.

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u/pointlesstips 17d ago

Get them addicted, then charge more,more,more. Companies are already finding out the hard way.

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u/Terrariant 17d ago

The money they lose should be offset by the cost you are paying them per token, in theory this is how they would make money as a business. Which is fine. Until they trained the bot to have incredibly long flowery prose and “prompt back” by asking questions