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Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets. (futurism.com)
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[+] -8 points 2 weeks ago* (6 children)

Why would anyone use a fortune on AI? A Claude subscription costing $200 will give a single person more tokens than they can probably use in a week. That's almost nothing if you compare it to a programmer's salary and the amount of leverage it can give them.

Then again, yeah, some people are just extremely dumb.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    $200 a month is if you let them train on/sell your data. Companies pay API costs, which are much higher than that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    That has the exact same opt-out option as API usage. If they train on that, what makes you think they won't train on API pricing model?

    You can also get plans as a company (if you want to be able to manage your employees) or you can just tell them to get whatever AI sub they want and reimburse them for it

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    $200 [...] almost nothing if you compare it to a programmer’s salary

    This is going to depend wildly on where in the world you are (for salaries) as well as currency conversion. My AI budget is zero since I don't care for it, but I don't think anyone on my team has that high of a monthly, let alone weekly, budget.

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