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2026-06-08 00:47 UTC

Yeah, I thought everyone was aware they are building datacenters and basically investing in infrastructure right now. Their spending doesn’t reflect how much it costs to deliver the service. I don’t believe they will succeed, I just think there’s more discussion to be had here than repeating “fuck AI lol”

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@FaceDeer@fedia.io 2026-06-08 01:33

I think a lot of people just want to conclude that AI is going to "go away", and latch on to beliefs that lead to this conclusion. I think a lot of AI companies are likely to "go away." That's what happened when the dot com bubble popped, if there is indeed an AI bubble then we'll see a similar massacre at the stock market. But the technology itself is sound, just like how the basic idea of e-commerce didn't vanish with the dot-coms. I've been doing a lot of fiddling with locally-run AI models and I'm thinking that the local open-weight models will be good enough to perform 90% of the tasks that most of us are currently depending on those big companies like Anthropic and OpenAI for. That's going to let a lot of the air out of them when the applications catch up and start using those cheaper commodity-level models instead. For now it's easier to just throw an OpenAI API key into your application and let it use the heavyweight models for everything, a powerful model can do simple tasks just as well as a simple model. Most tasks are simple but adding the ability to distinguish those tasks from the complicated ones is hard.

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