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Fuck AI, it's a bubble, etc. But I do wonder how much of the spending is actual revenue-generating operating costs and how much is further investment/R&D. I doubt Sam Altman sees spending Microsoft's billions on whatever tf he wants as a loss.

But that's what they wanted anyway, isn't it?

Burning shitloads of money.

Waiting until they can later, finally, rule the world.

Considering how many trillions quietly went into the field, I expect that's a LOT lower than real numbers.

Just exploitative market grab for early dominance. (Or: "Grift" lol.) They will make it back when all of us have no choice but use chatgpt for everything.

And that is probably only the beginning.

It's not small change anymore. That's what happens when you don't listen to your customers.

So, #FuckAI?

Remember when OpenAI launched Dall-E 2? You got a few tokens for free images and then had to pay for it. Presumably that was at least some reflection on the cost of producing the images.

Now you can create video for free and consumer expectations that generative AI should be super cheap have been set. That genie is not going to go easily back into the bottle.

What's the deal with the "HPE" in some Register articles? It's apparently the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise logo, but articles about HPE don't appear to have that logo.

Is The Register affiliated with HPE now?