Open vs closed AI is the most important “fight” right now, as it would completely collapse the kind of future regime people like Altman are trying to jawbone into reality.
It’s why they never shut up about their AI, yet you never hear any of these tech bros discuss Deepseek or Mistral or anything that can be run locally other than in passing. To speak it is to acknowledge that OpenAI and such don’t have anything special; “AI” as they’re developing is just a dumb commodity, that’s more or less topped out in intelligence but will get exponentially cheaper.
And they can’t make any money off that. If it’s all just a sea of open weights that cost virtually nothing to inference, where’s the profit?
And that’s why they’re stoking direct AI hate. That’s why they’re stoking AI safety concerns. They’re leaning into it. It distracts everyone from what would pop the AI bubble overnight: the realization that none of this buildout or investment is makes any sense.
…Hence, all these comments.
It costs less energy to inference a DSV4 prompt than your computer used while you read this Lemmy post. And it’s going to get dramatically cheaper. Yet people are still harping on AI power costs as if it’s inevitable, because that’s what Big Tech is pushing.
Open vs closed AI is the most important “fight” right now, as it would completely collapse the kind of future regime people like Altman are trying to jawbone into reality.
It’s why they never shut up about their AI, yet you never hear any of these tech bros discuss Deepseek or Mistral or anything that can be run locally other than in passing. To speak it is to acknowledge that OpenAI and such don’t have anything special; “AI” as they’re developing is just a dumb commodity, that’s more or less topped out in intelligence but will get exponentially cheaper.
And they can’t make any money off that. If it’s all just a sea of open weights that cost virtually nothing to inference, where’s the profit?
And that’s why they’re stoking direct AI hate. That’s why they’re stoking AI safety concerns. They’re leaning into it. It distracts everyone from what would pop the AI bubble overnight: the realization that none of this buildout or investment is makes any sense.
…Hence, all these comments.
It costs less energy to inference a DSV4 prompt than your computer used while you read this Lemmy post. And it’s going to get dramatically cheaper. Yet people are still harping on AI power costs as if it’s inevitable, because that’s what Big Tech is pushing.