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[โ€“] NaibofTabr 72 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Cory Doctorow made a very specific point about this on This Week in Tech 1074, in the context of comparing the growth of the Internet with the current AI market:

The web lost money for a long time. And it's true, they did, but they had good unit economics, right? Every user of the web made the web less unprofitable. Every use of the web made the web less unprofitable. And every generation of the web made the web more profitable. Contrast this with AI, where every time they sign up a user, they lose more money. Every time the user uses their account, they lose even more money.

And every generation of AI accelerates the rate at which they are losing money.

I think it sums up how unsustainable this is very nicely.

[โ€“] fluxx@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So, can we then accelerate this? Make like an openclaw agent that just wastes tokens on free accounts? Or is it not possible on free accounts? I don't know, I've never wanted to touch openclaw before.

Edit: according to openclaw doc, only groq (not to be confused with grok) offers a free tier API usage. So very limited chance of this working.

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