cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9918650
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- 9 days
The more we talk about AI the more he stays relevant, the longer he can prop up his stock price.
- 9 days
No it’s the money that keeps them relevant, not us talking about it.
- 9 days
To be clear I’m not demonizing us for talking about it, but that’s his tactic. He says something that keeps him in the news cycle, that keeps him in the minds of investors, which keeps his valuation up, and that’s the money. If he became irrelevant in the news that would mean his valuation was going down, and he’d be losing money - so yes I think him stirring the pot is to keep OpenAI relevant and talked about.
- Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
You would be shocked at how many people just buy stocks because they heard about Thing.
Also the stock market is completely made up.
- 5oap10116@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
“Please revolt. Me and my billionaire friends would like to see how our AI powered MG42s fair against a swarm.”
- JackFrostNCola@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
If by ‘shovel renting company’ you mean a company that rents shovels themselves - then yes.
Its crazy to me that these AI LLM companies are so overleveraged that they dont even own their own hardware
9 daysPersonally, I think it’s quite terrible that Sam Altman isn’t currently experiencing testicular torsion.
- galacticbackhoe@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
“Please Luigi me” said the man with the imminently punchable face.
- 9 days
He can rent ram from me if he thinks it’s so terrible, it’s the best option for those who need compute after all. I’ll rent a VM with 16GB of RAM to him for let’s say $1000 a month. Go ahead Sam, it’s the best utilization after all. For $5,000 a month you can have a part time “spot” instance with a GPU.
Oh but I don’t work like Nvidia, Sam, you get the same terms we do with subscriptions. You miss one payment, one payment doesn’t clear, you’re cut off.
That sounds about fair for how us consumers have been treated.
- daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Missed payments should be a suspension with a fine, plus late fee, plus convenience fee, plus admin fee, plus intrest on the late payment, plus reinstatement fee.
- Mike D@piefed.socialEnglish9 days
I’ve got 32GB of RAM that sits mostly unused in my main PC. I’ve got another micro PC with 16GB (I think) that hasn’t been on for year. Laptop has only 8GB but that hasn’t been turned on for sic months.
Hoping this makes Sam upset.
- 9 days
Yes. Terrible for him that I can do my own computing without having to rent it from him.
Next in breaking news: local mechanic thinks “it’s quite terrible” for people to repair their own cars at home.
- Folstar@lemmus.orgEnglish9 days
Manufacturers don’t even really want mechanics fixing them. Yes, we put that part that we know breaks in a position that requires disassembling half the engine. We’ll say it’s a 1 hour job. Good luck getting paid grease monkeys- now everyone shut up and buy more cars.
- 9 days
Definitely. If owners had to buy a new car every time it broke down, that would be nearly the manufacturers’ ideal situation. Personally I was as impressed as disgusted by the boldness of deploying features as a subscription. They still sold, so what do I know?
- SpaghettiMaster@feddit.ukEnglish9 days
Some repair guys do too and I find it really annoying when they are secretive over things.
When I worked in a repair shop if a customer asked I would let them know exactly what I’m doing.
Sounds like Sammy sees what way the winds are blowing, and is scared
Models are getting a lot more efficient, and the billion dollar models are going to have to compete with something basically free to run
- BlaestEgnen@feddit.dkEnglish9 days
Only a moron would think OpenAI was ever turning profitable.
There were two possible ways,
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Subscription prices rose to a point no one would be interested to pay.
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Inference got so cheap, that 98% of all use cases could be run by open weight models on local machines
In both situations OpenAi and Anthropic lost.
The bull case has been a bear case since the beginning. Both companies will most likely stay alive, but will eventually have their costs turned down as they’re going to be bought out by some of the mastodonts.
The best possible scenario for either of them, is if a government want a frontier lab and decides to buy one already functioning. Rather than having their universities start from scratch
They die if we use local models.
The second profit condition would be it got so cheap they could make bank on data collection
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- StabbingSky@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
Depending on your rig there will still be recurring cost (electricity)
- PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Well, yeah… i was just pointing out that “free” wasn’t exactly accurate
Maybe, maybe not. Phones are getting more optimized for AI and have decent RAM, so the on device models may not be great at agentic problem solving, but they’ll probably meet most people’s AI needs
Plus, any reasonable gaming computer or MacBook can run models… Maybe a bit slowly and maybe just the compressed 8gb models, but they can pretty much all do it to some degree
So I think we’ll be in a place where there’s little or no upfront cost after a couple more key advancements
- jaxxed@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Thankfully, OpenAI will barely survive 2026, and will die n 2027. We shouldn’t have to hear too much more about him.
- stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
I have previously posted about having a set of 20cl rum bottles, each bottle being dedicated to when I no longer have to live on the same planet as particular bastards that do their best to ruin everything they touch.
I recently bought another set of 20cl rum bottles, and I am thinking of dedicating them to AI companies crashing and burning…
But I am worried, they may not crash and burn, some other person will just buy them before they die completely…
- Mr_lobber_lobber@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Oh i like this idea…good excuse to get a decent whisky on stock:-)
- dltk@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
I like it, however I’ve taken the opposite strategy and simply drink to cope with their existence in the present.
- stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish8 days
Wait, sorry, I thought you ment the last bottle…
The Gran Anejo is dedicated to Rupert Murdoch, one of the true media ghouls
- 9 days
Next he’ll be paying off politicians to make it legal for police to come to your door and seize your RAM for ‘national security’. There’ll be a huge right wing media campaign, funded by the taxpayer, under the heading ‘The War Against Home RAM’. People who own their own computers will be labelled ‘terrorists’.
- j4yc33@piefed.socialEnglish9 days
I have a combined somewhere around 512GiB DRAM. I am glad to know it pisses Altmann Off.
To answers the obvious: Homelab.
I have a combined somewhere around 512GiB DRAM
aka your savings for retirement.
- SpaghettiMaster@feddit.ukEnglish9 days
It will be worth its weight in gold or in steel, depends how the markets go.
I have 512GB of ECC in one server, 64GB of DDR5 in my desktop, and probably another couple of hundred GB or so of DDR4 from previous desktops in a box on my shelf.
Starting to worry about a home invasion by one of the AI companies.
- hardcoreufo@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
I’ve got at least 256 in sticks lying around. Maybe another 128 or so in SBCs and laptops with soldered ram.
- brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 days
Sam Altman should be hung upside down and forced to subsidize hardware prices for everybody to offset the damage he’s caused.
- adarza@lemmy.caEnglish9 days
i think it’s quite terrible that so much oxygen is wasted on these mf’ers.
- Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish9 days
Big talk for someone who can’t get the funding for their insane spending anymore.
