Cory Doctorow on Nostr: AI's happiest customers cite cost-benefits that depend on unimaginable subsidies from ...

AI's happiest customers cite cost-benefits that depend on unimaginable subsidies from AI companies, who are basically selling $100 bills for $5 apiece. It would be pretty amazing if you couldn't find people who'd extol the virtues of this arrangement. But when AI companies try to raise the price of those $100 bills to, say, $20 apiece, those ecstatic customers fly into a rage and start loudly proclaiming that AI is so inefficient that they will lose money on this arrangement:

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