| ▲ | brookst a day ago | |
If your theory were true, wouldn’t smaller soda makers be substantially less expensive? There are plenty of them. Why aren’t they cleaning up? Besides, competition / collusion is a false dichotomy. Would you say carmakers don’t compete because they collude on safety standards? Yes, companies optimize for profit and that can mean not maximizing R&D spend unless/until market conditions demand it. But R&D is not free. If Coke and Pepsi were throwing AI money at the next ultrasoda, it would be reflected in prices. All of this is much more complex than just “big companies bad”. | ||
| ▲ | jqpabc123 a day ago | parent [-] | |
All of this is much more complex than just “big companies bad”. Small companies compete (they have no choice), big companies collude (because they can). AI isn't even profitable yet and the big players are already starting to collude and act in unison. Does this make "big companies bad"? It certainly ain't intended to make "good" for consumers. And consumers understand this --- so they heve few qualms about turning to external suppliers. And so it is with AI. | ||