• zeppo@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Thus transferring their money to openAI, Anthropic etc? How does that help?

      • y0kai [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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        3 months ago

        those companies arent profitable either and they have same problems in which it costs them more to run their products than they are currently charging people to use it.

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          3 months ago

          What do you mean by either? Walmart and Amazon make tens of billions in profit a year if not a quarter.

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              3 months ago

              Did you read the title? It says to spend Walmart and Amazon’s money on AI. And you said “those companies aren’t profitable either” which would mean, using normal rules of English grammar, that “Walmart and Amazon aren’t profitable and OpenAI and Anthropic aren’t profitable either”. So what are you talking about? What does “either” mean?

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      3 months ago

      I know a company that burned $100k in tokens after they they let like 50 worker bees using general AI for OCR, simply converting images and PDFs to text.

      They didn’t bother to create a skill, or teach the AI how to reuse a shared script so every request resulted in it writing a new python project, pulling libraries, using a frontier model rather than offloading a dumb one etc.

      Basically find a business process that happens often and let em at it inefficiently, it’ll happily chew through the budget.