We have been gorging ourselves at an all-you-can-eat buffet, but the menu is about to change. AI tools that have been discounted will soon start charging based on your usage, raising serious questions about our appetite to pay.
The answer could have big implications for the future of artificial intelligence (AI).
And the AI Tech bros aren’t doing too well in the stock market at present.
Hah fuck no. I can just boot up an LLM with OpenLlama on my own machine and use that. Not selling all of the available RAM to corpo scum bags means we everyone will be better off.
We will never pay for AI but there are millions of people who will. Downvote me all you like but it truly is inevitable
AI costs are currently heavily subsidised. Do you think millions of individuals will be willing to pay 100 AUD a month? 500 AUD per month? Some companies might, but I doubt individuals will.
Downvote me all you like but it truly is inevitable
Let’s leave this shit behind on Reddit.
They just keep nerfing the plans one at a time till they’re no longer subsidised. Anthropic had a max 5x and max 20x plan at 100 and 200 dollarbucks, but they now upgraded max 20x to ultra which is 10x pro rather than 20x. Much better!
Why should I downvote you (in any case, I hardly ever downvote anyone)? You may be absolutely right. I put up the post because I was unaware that the cost of using AI was going to go up even more and it was worth discussing.
The idea here, I hope, is to discuss ideas and opinions. Sometimes, people make comments with malicious intent rather than comment on the topic. I don’t even downvote them but I might give them a serve back.
People just downvote opinions that go against their echo chamber these days. I’m glad you’re not one of them 🙂
Sorry, you make a valid point, but I still had to downvote you for the LOLZ.
Its okay to have your opinion where your opinion doesn’t begin harming others. ~J.S.Mill
Have an upvote. We can build ourselves a more respectful web.
If experienced staff are pushed out because essential work is done by AI , it will be hard to go back – a discount can expire a lot faster than it takes to rebuild a workforce.
Looking forward to the downfall of companies that fired most of their staff, or didn’t hire any, assuming an LLM would do the job.
Think harder, AI
NO
NOOOO
for devs (ie the only part of the bubble that is seeing any significant usage), qwen 3.8 and deepseek are fine for %95 of use cases.
there are a bazillion providers that will sell you tokens for peanuts. mix that in with self hosting where you have the resources to do so (its docker containers and a bit or orchestration not rocket science) and we will just see the market normalise to something closer to web hosting.
…and windows monkey IT departments will just buy whatever microsoft is selling.
that future is not worth 1/1000th of whatever todays AI hype cycle is getting shoved down our throats.
</pulling some shit out of my arse>
services: llama: image: ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp:server-cuda container_name: llama env_file: - .env.llama ports: - "8081:8081" expose: - '8081' volumes: - ./models:/models networks: - proxy deploy: resources: reservations: devices: - driver: nvidia count: all capabilities: [gpu]where you have the resources to do so
If only the AI datacentres hadn’t tripled the price of RAM and GPUs
Must be painful if that’s what you pull out of your arse 🤣
Can you explain in non-techwrite what you mean by your ‘services’ segment? Or am I intentionally not supposed to understand?
its a minimal https://docs.docker.com/compose/ file for running LLM models you download (eg from https://huggingface.co/Qwen)
Thank you but I’ll find out about llamas some other way. 😆
My background is totally arts and social sciences and I’m in my 70s so I don’t speak this lingo. I hope others can benefit from your advice though.
oh nice :)
its all just computer crap, same as it ever was.
