| ▲ | strogonoff 12 hours ago | |
The more people they get addicted to LLMs, the higher they can raise prices when they want to—not to mention, normalizing it makes them more likely to survive copyright infringement lawsuits. Microsoft has already used LLM integration to raise prices by force-upselling Copilot to M365 users[0], and of course they are still losing outrageous money on this tech every month. In a sense, recouping losses via price hikes is the best scenario. If good LLMs truly become as commodified as some people want everyone to believe (meaning MS and especially smaller VC-funded companies in the hypespace would not be able to profit as much as they need to break even), the avenues for financial gain become worse for us—think turning all generative ML-driven output into a two-sided marketplace, where advertisers get to pay them so that the growing generation’s future chatbot therapists inject whatever feelings help them sell more. | ||