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Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable (charleshughsmith.substack.com)

AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs. Once those subsidies end, what’s left are costs, not profits. Play that any way you like, but massive subsidies are not sustainable, though they generate a temporary illusion of viability that can be exploited by those selling a fantasy of future profitability to credulous investors and enterprises.

Left unsaid is a lot of money is being gambled on the illusion that subsidies are sustainable. They’re not. Enterprises don’t have profits, they have costs.

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[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

At the end of the day the AI war is a production war, and China already won. Right now they're just pacing the field and waiting for US companies to over extend themselves. The extra time also allows them to lay in place more efficiency of their own.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Don't worry, the US government will step in and make it illegal to use Chinese models for "national security" reasons.

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