AI costs are coming to consumers

I thought it’d be about chatbots finally getting rid of free plans, but no, it’s just about the rising prices of everything.

What kind of rock did these journalists live under that they think these costs aren’t already here?

“AI costs” of course being a convenient cover story for us covering the criminally bad and and stupid financial and business decisions made by the owning class. Time for some more rugged individualism for us Poor’s so the rich can feel the sweet embrace of socializing their losses.

Billions pissed down the drain of a dead end technology, massive overproduction of expensive and damaging infrastructure supporting a product that ultimately does very little.

They dumped the economy into a blender because they thought they could see a world where they didn’t need workers anymore, and it’s coming home to roost now.

Luigi time

Coming? I can’t buy parts, utility bills are skyrocketing, and the AI companies are getting government handsouts left and right. We’ve been paying AI costs.

When investors heard the news from Google and Microsoft, they were thrilled. Both companies reported double-digit growth in cloud revenue. Meta, not being in the business of cloud computing, took a beating in its stock price after noting rising spending on AI infrastructure. Even though the company’s advertising business has grown with the adoption of AI and its overall revenue topped expectations, investors seem to see a clearer through-line from AI infrastructure investment to cloud computing than to ads.

Seriously, eff these investors. And of course the international conglomerate corps.