this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
775 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1532 readers
148 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I cancelled a 20$ subscription I started because it was arguably useful for me and served exactly one use-case. Now I don't need it anymore.

Of course, they had a form asking feedback/why. I chose "ChatGapT is nott advanced enough" as that was one of the alternatives. Hopefully it will lead to them putting more resources into development and burn through investor money faster.

"Trust me bro, just 200m dollars more"

  • Sam Altman, probably
[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 days ago

Just one more datacenter bro, just one more (that consumes the same power as Belgium.)

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Mikina@programming.dev 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hmm, we should get together some funds to buy a single unlimited subscription, and then let it continuously generate as large and complex prompts as the rate limitting allows.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)

On one hand, heck yes. On the other, part of the reason its so expensive is because of the energy and water usage, so sticking it to the man in this way also is harmful to the environment :(

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 31 points 3 days ago

Buy two. Ask the other to generate expensive prompts.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is something I've been speculating for a while. The cost of running these complex systems (as OpenAI models aren't just LLMs) is subsidized so heavily that we don't really know the cost of running these things.

This is a huge risk to any business, as the price for these services has to go up significantly in the long term.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If they are losing money on $200/month, that does not necessarily mean they lose money on the $20/month.

One is unlimited, the other is not. You only have to use the $200 subscription more than 10 times the amount the $20 subscription allows for OpenAI to earn less on that subscription.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago

We already know they're losing money on everything

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

really looking forward to how these multi-billion dollar AI datacenter investments will work out for big tech companies

that said I'm pretty sure most of that capacity is reserved for the surveillance state anyway

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

I’m excited for the used hardware dump

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Can someone explain the Pale Horse reference?

load more comments (19 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›