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Based on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year — though only a third of the contracted power is expected to be online by the end of this decade.

The charts on this article are wild. I believe they’ve raised over $60 billion so far, so over the next five years they will 4x that—just to continue to lose money. And that’s assuming they double their paying user base. Obviously the intent for these companies is to find ways to reduce the cost of operations and likely slow down R&D at a certain point, or at least point the research in other areas as Google did before them. But boy, does it seem like an uphill battle to even make a penny. Not to beat a dead horse, but they also clearly participate in predatory pricing practices.

I think people who are high on Sora 2 as The Next Great Thing are giving the same energy as those who thought Clubhouse was going to kill podcasts a few years ago or that NFTs were actually a great idea and were totally not just a bubble that would immediately pop.

Yes, exactly. And this is why I always said people who have zero concerns about AI are living in the clouds. Financially, economically, environmentally, ethically, and culturally—there are major concerns across all five of these areas. And the people in charge of these companies don’t give a fuck about any of it.

Artists hate using it. Consumers hate consuming it And yet it thrives, like an Arby’s built inside a protected forest.

This whole comic nails it—especially that line. The only people excited about AI art are those who see it as some sort of tech bro hustle culture. But real artists, actual fans, and people already a part of these communities want and expect more from their art—even if they can’t always tell something was AI. Art I about humanity and connection and no matter how good AI gets at replicating things (keyword: replicating), it can never connect on a human level because (and I hope this is obvious) AI will never be human.