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I think its likely the codex price hike, not Ai
Most of their servers are processing and multiencoding with h264/h265, and even if people are moving away from that for av1 they have such a massive platform that they still have to utilize it even when most have moved on
Ill rerespond to this to a link to exactly what im talking about if I remember
https://vger.to/lemmy.world/comment/23048406
That only applies to new contracts from what I heard, not to existing contracts. Google certainly has a long term contract that wouldn't be affected by the increased royalties for new H.264 contracts.
Oh, come now... You really telling me you think they or any other multi-billion dollar corp won't frontload the costs and pocket the difference?
Or 'ease' the price increase in over a few quarters so that its not met with as harsh of backlash?