Post #2640989 · Elektrine

2026-01-17 00:28 UTC

@pixx@merveilles.town @Orb2069@mastodon.online @lexfeathers@tenforward.social the end goal is to get major companies dependent on the LLM workflow, once that's done they'll raise prices and cut features. It's hugely unprofitable right now. Ed Zitron has written extensively on the financial situation here, and there's just no other option for the LLM companies (they can't keep burning investment money forever).

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@pixx@merveilles.town 2026-01-17 00:31

@notthatdelta@furry.engineer @Orb2069@mastodon.online @lexfeathers@tenforward.social Sure, but - that's not my point? "It's unprofitable" sure, yeah, that's obvious "It's unpopular" does _not_ necessarily follow, given that they _lose money on each of their users_. 15k isn't a nothingburger of a sample pool, but - that's why I'm curious about how representative it is. My thought process here is something along the lines of, 'If you actually like AI, _you wouldn't be using DDG to begin with_, you'd be fine with google or chatgpt or whatever so you wouldn't even notice this and you're not going to care to vote in it'. Hence: is this a representative sample _of fedi_? _Of DDG users_ as a whole? Or of the _general public_?

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