> This echoes a lot of the rhetoric around "but how will facebook/twitter/etc make money?"

The answer was, and will be ads (talk about inevitability!)

Can you imagine how miserable interacting with ad-funded models will be? Not just because of the ads they spew, but also the penny-pinching on training and inference budgets, with an eye focused solely on profitability. That is what the the future holds: consolidations, little competition, and models that do the bare-minimum, trained and operated by profit-maximizing misers, and not the unlimited intelligence AGI dream they sell.

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signatoremo 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It won’t be ads. Social media target consumers, so advertising is dominant. We all love free services and don’t mind some attraction.

AI on the other hand target businesses and consumers alike. A bank using LLM won’t get ads. Using LLM will be cost of doing business. Do you know what they means to consumers? Price for ChatGPT will go down.

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johnnyanmac 7 hours ago | parent [-]

>AI on the other hand target businesses and consumers alike.

Okay. So AI will be using ads for consumers and make deals with the billionaires. If window 11/12 still puts ads in what is a paid premium product, I see no optimism in thinking that a "free" chatbot will not also resort to it. Not as long as the people up top only see dollar signs and not long term longevity.

>Price for ChatGPT will go down.

Price for ChatGPT in reality, is going up in the meanwhile. This is like hoping grocery prices come down as inflation lessens. This never happens, you can only hope to be compensated more to make up for inflation.

	▲	Geezus_42 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Has any SAAS product ever reduced their subscription cost?

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6510 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I see a real window this time to sell your soul.