Monetization isn't a bad thing when it ensures that workers are getting paid a fair wage and to make a service sustainable.
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Monetization isn't a bad thing when it ensures that workers are getting paid a fair wage and to make a service sustainable.
De-monetization can be a bad thing when a company does this to short-term undercut otherwise sustainable companies and destabilize healthy, well regulated industries to drive out legitimate competition to then monetize it later, and often for more.
A lot of those app driven and gig economy startups are now cashing in and that's part of the inflation.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by [email protected]
The same thing is also happening with many AI services. OpenAI keeps having to get financially bailed out by Microsoft. They know what they currently charge isn't sustainable. The goal is to get companies to rely on these services (who now have to now that they laid off workers to depend on it) and then raise those costs over several years to make up for their door busting losses.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by
If you read any of the Microsoft investor report, it's not really a secret. Investors wouldn't be investing if steep monetization increases weren't part of the package.
I suspect there will be a lot of industry sticker shock over the next 5-10 years for companies that retooled their sales, marketing, HR, and support around these subscription AI services.
FTR, it's not just Microsoft and OpenAI, but they're just a particularly good example for wearing their heart on their sleeve.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by
Yes, economies of scale apply, but I suggest seeing if you can afford to run those AI services locally on your own infra, because if not, you might not be able to afford adopting AI at all as these cloud services eventually need to charge more than it costs *and* more than it has costed them so far to run it on their own machines in order to turn a profit for their investors.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by [email protected]
Trying it locally will also necessarily give you more insight into the actual limitations and usefulness of the tech beyond what an ambitious over-promising sales zealot might pitch to a suit about it.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by
Betting the house on these #AI services today is akin to proposing marriage on a first date. You haven't really seen enough yet to know what this relationship is going to look like longterm and there's a lot at stake.
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