I see it's another day when Sam Altman has said something which sounds outrageous if you take it as a genuine statement of his beliefs and rather less so when you look at it as a piece of marketing copy.

[eleanorrees@mas.to]

I see it's another day when Sam Altman has said something which sounds outrageous if you take it as a genuine statement of his beliefs and rather less so when you look at it as a piece of marketing copy.

[eleanorrees@mas.to]

'Intelligence' has more than one meaning, and 'you're going to rent your intelligence from us' might mean 'I am going to own all the brains mwahaha' or it might mean 'you can get access to intel for a slightly lower cost than running your own intelligence agency.'

Which is why I'm not sure I believe the prediction that the price of LLM use will be jacked up once people are hooked on them. If chatbots are primarily an information-gathering tech, it makes sense to keep them cheap at point of use.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@eleanorrees No, it doesn't - if you're the gatekeeper, which is EXTREMELY much what Altman, Amodei et al are competing to be. There's no such thing as a delivery such people won't jack up to infinite dollars if A. people are forced to buy it and B. they have a monopoly on selling it.

Do not for one second delude yourself that these guys are trying to run a business. They couldn't operate a curbside lemonade stand. They only understand exploitation.