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Oh god, this has just made me reflect that we're in the golden age of generative AI - not in technology terms, in user experience terms. We're in the period whe
by duncanfwalker 1y ago
Oh god, this has just made me reflect that we're in the golden age of generative AI - not in technology terms, in user experience terms. We're in the period where the major products are competing against each other before they switch into enshitfication mode. You're certainly right, there's going to be ads in the answers and probably worse. I'm imagining companies paying to introduce ideas as subtle subtexts to millions of unrelated answers or platforms deliberately engineering the ux to maximise understanding of our drives and preferences purely so it can be sold.
- aftergibson 1y agoOf course. Were in the burning VCs cash by the truckload phase. And inference isn't getting cheaper. I'd argue this is the worst its ever been in terms of over extending a business and they might not be able to enshitificate fast enough.
- justahuman74 1y agoInference will get much much cheaper. We're paying $30000 for a top of the line gpu right now, but that's only because everyone insists on buying nvidia, so nvidia has full incentive to charge the absolute maximum. Long term that vendor lock in will go away and prices will go down to something reasonable. Long ago CPUs were super expensive too, now they're so cheap we put them in toothbrushes
- pbronez 1y agoYou better believe I’m going full self-hosted AI the moment I get a whiff of sponsored content in an AI response I paid for.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoSome decent tech billionaire should do what Andrew Carnegie did for libraries but for AI. Would be really cool if they tied it to local libraries.