jtrek comments on Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 38 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

That's a lot of money that could have been spent on healthcare, food security, housing, transit, climate change problems...

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[+] AliOski@feddit.nl -18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That's not how that works… the money "lost" isn't going down the drain. It is… going somewhere, doing something useful. That's why it is a loss to the company.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 33 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If it's going to make LLMs it's not as useful as the other things I listed. Paying a bunch of software engineers $300k each to work on LLM nonsense instead of something useful is a shame. Sure, the money isn't set on fire, but the opportunity cost is large.

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[–] RandomStranger@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

I mean... A lot of the money is being spent on compute, which is just consuming electricity, which is many times made from coal or gas. So a lot literally is on fire.

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[–] Seralth@piefed.seralth.com -4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Your confusing fact with opinion.

Factually yes it's useful to the company.

Your opinion is that the usefulness doesn't justify it and this isn't useful.

The real question is, is it useful enough. Which is likely no.

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