2026-09-14 13:21 UTC
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@samvines@awful.systems 2026-09-14 14:52
Also the frontier “labs” are rapidly running out of money and having to raise more and more insane investment rounds. This is a great way to save face and back away from burning $$$$ on training runs that push the frontier of can a model rearrange some arbitrary coloured squares by 10% next they just need to solve the problem of how to make their customers pay cost+ on inference when they’ve been giving it away at steep discounts for nearly 4 years… Easy!
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@jelte@mastodon.nl 2026-09-14 16:29
@gerikson@awful.systems @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems if it were 1, they could just shut it off right now.
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@gbsills@social.vivaldi.net 2026-09-14 16:31
@gerikson@awful.systems @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems Yeah, the whole idea is to perpetuate the myth that these companies are really close to coming out with a product that people will actually pay to use. A product that people will pay enough to cover its cost. They want to simultaneously make an excuse for why it is taking so long while making gormless investors think it is just around the corner.
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-09-14 16:42
The symbiosis between the rabid cultists, the technofedual wannabe-lords, and the get rich quick grifters is so weird to watch.
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@grievousangel@ravenation.club 2026-09-14 18:01
@gerikson@awful.systems My assumption is that they want a regulatory moat to protect “frontier” models from “open weight” / AKA cheap models. It’s just margin protection.
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@SoftwareTheron@mas.to 2026-09-14 21:13
@gerikson@awful.systems @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems Also they dare not actually let the market price their shares.
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@Nerde@beige.party 2026-09-14 23:29
@gerikson@awful.systems @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems https://beige.party/@Nerde/117270902508608320
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@Jmelloy@vis.social 2026-09-15 16:28
@gerikson@awful.systems @cstross@wandering.shop no obvious way to fix that, (and previous attempts were expensive)