Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
Errr. I think you might be looking at it from the wrong POV. I mean, the more money I make off AI, the more money you are going to make off AI because I am paying you for use of it. No one is getting anything for free. If the money I'm paying you to provide me with AI is not covering your costs, then either you need to charge me more which I'm happy to pay as my business is very profitable or you can invest in looking for ways to reduce your costs. You can even do both.
No, we're looking at it the same way, and it's quite reasonable. We can't say much about whether or not it will get cheaper. Technology changes in unpredictable ways, so it may well be the case that it gets cheaper. Currently, though, none of the LLM are even close to being profitable, which means they aren't charging anywhere near the break even point. Why is that? I see speculation, but I don't know why that is. I think it is because the use of LLM would plummet if the true cost was passed along to consumers in the current iteration.

I got looking for articles on the subject. There were too many, and I wandered off reading about them, eventually ending up on a page about a murder. In any case, they aren't currently profitable. Will they be? Perhaps. Might they not be? Also, perhaps. Not much point in arguing about it, though. That's the future. It will get here.