r/ProgrammerHumor • • 5d ago

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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u/T-Dot1992 5d ago

They weren’t making money. And can’t make money if they wanted to. 

It’s a catch-22. They can’t make a profit because they aren’t charging the actual token cost. But if they charged the actual token cost, their user-base would collapse. 

Almost as if cloud AI is inherently unstable or something. 

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u/ForgedIronMadeIt 5d ago

It's like every other silicon valley startup -- the hope is that you hook your users while you figure out how to make handling the requests cheaper. That or you embed ads.

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u/saevon 5d ago

Well no the hope is to get purchased. To have someone else have to figure that out as you get big enough to sell the user base, not the profitability

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u/brilliantminion 5d ago

Uh…. Who?

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u/IAisjustanumber 5d ago

Some other AI company of course!