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It's coming for us all.. sooner or later.
by q8zd3 22d ago
It's coming for us all.. sooner or later.
- skrellm 21d agoAnd who is going to pay the bills for that? No AI companies were able to make profit so far, and unemployed masses surely won't buy expensive ChatGPT subscriptions. Will AI labs make profit from AI using companies? Hardly, unemployed masses can't and won't buy their products either, therefore they won't be able to afford even more expensive ChatGPT Enterprise subscriptions. (For crying out loud, even big corps like Uber can't pay all their AI bills.) And if AI labs have no profits, how are they supposed to pay the hyperscalers for computing capacity? They will run out of investor money pretty soon. And if hyperscalers can't rent out their data centers to AI labs, how are they supposed to pay for the electricity (gas/diesel/etc.) and water bills and repay their already enormous debts? I honestly don't see how replacing all workers with AI could be profitable at all.
- q8zd3 21d agoI do not disagree with you, but I think they will try to do it anyway
- 99954bb63ccc 21d agoyea that's kind of the crux in this whole mess we are in: It doesn't really matter how right or wrong anyone is... They are driving and we are along for the ride.
- dgellow 21d agoA few are deciding to take a massive, extremely risky bet on behalf of the entire world population. And of course they are the ones insulated from any potential disaster
- HDThoreaun 21d agoMeta is planning to use their own AI to replace their workers. They are spending hundreds of billions of datacenters. If they cut 30,000 workers thats around 15 billion a year in savings. Once their own workers are replaced they plan to sell their AI agents to small businesses for use on their platforms.
- dgellow 21d agoThats what the article is about, and how that backfired
- loeg 21d agoThe article just shows it was too early in May 2026.
- HDThoreaun 21d agoso mark's gonna try again next year