• HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
      481·
      2 months ago

      The AI craze among the Epstein class has revealed some indisputable facts in a way more obvious than ever before:

      1. The rich hate the poor and hold a genuine, malicious and sadistic desire to see them suffer and die. Its not just a consequence of their pursuit of money, it’s an outright explicit goal
      2. The ruling class is abhorrently incompetent, increadibly lazy, and inconceivably stupid. There is no group of people less qualified to lead the world than the class of people who currently lead the world.
      3. There is no “things will change before they become irreversible”. The ONLY answer is to eliminate the Epstein class. They will lead the world to Armageddon with a smile on their dead faces.
      4. Technology under capitalism doesn’t become mainstream when it has sufficiently satisfied the problems it promises to solve. It becomes mainstream FAR before it is ready because the Epstein class thinks its magic.
    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      19·
      2 months ago

      AI CEOs might end up doing better, you know?
      At least better than the type of human CEOs that decide to go full AI.

      • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        7·
        2 months ago

        The trouble with that, I feel, may lie in the subtle differences between

        • the CEO kind of psychopath: batshit unplugged for sure, no contest; just enough to make fucktons of money for far too few people, but not too cracked that they blow everything up, instead…

        • and, any given bot’s penchant for going off the fucking’ rails in record time, every time —which, unless you short the whole thing, makes the opposite of money.

        🤭

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          Hey, 5 years ago, they couldn’t even solve a HackerRank preliminary coding challenge.

          The only problem I see with AI CEOs is that the biggest models will be available to those that already have loads of money, so the adversarial investors get to win.

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
    47·
    2 months ago

    At least with human labour companies have control. They withhold raises and bat down wages and the people tend to have to take it.

    With AI you get suckered in and all of a sudden have a subscription or something similar. Then next year the costs go up. You’ve already tailored your workflow to use AI, you can’t just not pay the higher bill. Next year, costs go up again. What are you going to do? Not pay your bill and lose your entire workforce all at once? Now the company is being held hostage by the AI companies.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
      23·
      2 months ago

      Of course they are too dumb to expect this outcome, but it’s so fucking obvious this would happen. OpenAI is still burning billions each years, just wait and see how much it will cost when they need to make a profit. (They have already cut down on the free version)

      • ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I mean, it’s the same freaking market strategy that’s been used for over a decade in tech and nobody seems to realize they’re inside a slowly boiling water…

    • Tamo240@programming.dev
      10·
      2 months ago

      Any service you depend on in the modern world, you need to be asking yourself ‘what will I do when this enshitifies itself’. And it is a when.

      Short termism on all sides is destroying our society.

    • TheMadBeagle@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 months ago

      For anyone who has worked for a large company that was around for the IBM mainframe days, it’s hilarious watching them try to remove the mainframe from their tech stack, while simultaneously becoming dependent on AI.

  • Mikina@programming.dev
    29·
    2 months ago

    Meta was spending ~300 MILLION dollars per MONTH on tokens around a month ago.

    I know they are using Claude, so the price estimation of 5$ per 1M tokens is kind of true, more or less.

    Tell me how is this sustainable in the long term?

    In a 30-day period, total employee usage on the dashboard exceeded 60 trillion tokens, and the highest-ranked individual user averaged 281 billion tokens. Using the least expensive version of Claude Opus 4.6, which costs $5 for every million tokens, that one user alone could have cost Meta more than $1.4 million.

    ⁨https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/meta-killed-employee-ai-token-dashboard/⁩

    • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
      171·
      2 months ago

      ~300 MILLION dollars per MONTH Tell me how is this sustainable in the long term?

      Every single rich SOB on earth is pooling their hedged bets together. Since 2022 Meta has been issuing bonds directly to investors. They announced another 30 Billion in bonds at the end of 2025.

      People need to realize that the AI bubble will not pop by accident. It will pop as a direct result of the Epstien-Shareholder class cashing out and leaving retail investors hodling the bag.

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Using the least expensive model of Claude

      Meta makes LLMs. They’ve made multiple, some of them are even tailored for coding.

      Why are they using Anthropic’s AI instead of their own?

      I can only imagine there’s some sort of ouroboros slop machine money laundering cycle going on or something

      • Mikina@programming.dev
        2·
        2 months ago

        Because their LLMs suck, and they still want their devs to be productive, while watching their usage to train the internal models.

        They give you a choice, and no one is using the internal models.

  • Botzo@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 months ago

    I spent an hour today on a webinar about how to optimize token usage with more than 500 other participants from the company I work for. Because billing is about to have its come-to-Jesus moment.

  • plateee@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    I think some CEOs are probably okay with it costing more - that’s less benefits to pay out, less PTO/sick days to deal with, and less labor concerns when you run your AI slop machine 24/7 instead of those pesky 40 hour work weeks.

    AI will have to cost a lot more, or hurt the bottom line other ways (people stop buying your AI shit).

    • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
      21·
      2 months ago

      AI is already hurting their bottom line, but they keep fantasizing about the future gains, that actually will not arrive. Ever.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Most management types can’t see beyond their next bonus.

      That goes double for any publicly traded company.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    It’s management who fucked up, but let’s blame it on software because what we really care about is hating the software.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    101·
    2 months ago

    And get it blatantly wrong… not that a human wont also, but just like the computer, humans can be conditioned to defend the exploitative conditions of their own existence.

    • Yliaster@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      I don’t really get what the punchline is. It’s not sustainable seems to be it, but it doesn’t seem likely to be destroying OpenAI or Anthropic etc, which is what I want to happen.

        • Yliaster@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Hmm. Doesn’t seem like it’ll be good news for the average person afterwards then. But perhaps when the bomb goes off computer (ram) prices can go down(?).

  • borth@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 months ago

    And you don’t think this is at least some of those CEOs’ point?? Now they can rehire people for even less than they paid them before