In recent weeks, AI companies have either tightened up or hiked prices on their subscription services—or throttled access to the systems they offer. GitHub paused new Copilot Pro signups in April while announcing it would move to a usage-based system from June 1. OpenAI has introduced a wider range of pricing tiers at different levels in order to try and better capture the different ways its products are used. And last month, Anthropic was forced to admit it had accidentally been serving users a cut-down version of Claude compared to the one they thought they were accessing because of an error introduced when trying to make their models more efficient. It’s all part of the challenges AI labs face in keeping up with demand, and tackling what’s already considered to have been a highly subsidized product. Nvidia, which develops the lion’s share of the chips powering the AI revolution, says that AI can now cost more than human workers. Caption from article by Chris Stokel-Walker, Inc.com.
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The tool that is supposed to replace me is more expensive than me and worse? Who knew?
Outsourcing thinking, who'd have thought it could go wrong
Shrinkflation for AI is probably the best thing to happen in years.
Hey congrats on going into massive amounts of debt to better yourself. You are already obsolete and no one will hire you anymore. Tone deaf doesn’t begin to describe that speaker.
That didn’t take very long, did it?
Saying AI is "becoming more popular" as opposed to corpos forcing AI into everything against the consumers wishes is wild
In the Terminators universe, humans won the war because skynet needed these massive facilities and energy consumption to function. Ultimately, humans won because they were more adaptive, more nimble, and more energy efficiency.
Its probably not even Shrinkflation but the cursed Ouroborus!
Appreciate your coverage of these things!
the bubble's about to pop
The fact that Co-Pilot was even a part of Xbox before it is insane
Small note - it's not about there being more AI demand but the prices of running the models finally starting to reach the end users. It was always super expensive. That's how all the big AI companies were burning tens of billions per year. Now it seems the investors are finally starting to ask if this is actually going to make money at some point?
The point of AI was never to make the worker's lives easier, it's always been the goal to replace us. They let us use it to train the AI to do so, gather user data to sell and to aid in the surveillance of anyone not blindly loyal to the profit motive
The needle gets deeper into the bubble
Don't forget that that graduation speaker gave that speech at the College of Arts and Humanities graduation specifically.
"AI is getting more popular" How!? All I ever hear is people being fed up with it
I just gotta say you are my favorite journalist out there. I would say favorite "news YouTuber" as I don't exactly have a list of favorite journalists, but I wouldn't want to strip you of your cred. Genuinely so much respect belongs on your name
In my company, we have a leaderboard for token usage. It’s so silly but necessary for performance evaluations so we have to sing along.
that graduate speaker was a terrible idea
Teach people how to do things without AI So they don't pay for something that doesn't work Edit: You make the best videos