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What do you think the current crop of AI and its users would look like if there was literally zero profit incentive at all steps? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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If it was literally impossible to make any profit off AI, how do you think things would look like now?

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[–] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's not really a hypothetical when no one is currently making a profit off of LLMs.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev [S] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Plenty of slop is making a profit passing off as news sites. There's also the video slop flooding the big social media sites, earning ad revenue

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 4 days ago

The more of them that are, the less they're worth. It's only a matter of time before it costs more to make a slop video than what it can make in ad revenue.

I don't know the pricing, but the cost is going up while the revenue is going down. The easy slop earning model is going to peak within a year if it hasn't already.

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