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minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·5 days agoThis isn’t about anyone blocking access like censorship. This is an economic issue. The LLM companies are all hemorrhaging cash, and none of them have a clear or realistic path to profitability.
minus-squareHominine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·5 days ago This is an economic issue Agreed. and it’s gonna start being a huge paywall to people using it. What happens when we can buy access to a Singaporean or French LLM on the cheap as the US monoliths raise this paywall?
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThey’ll lobby to prevent you from doing that, and will try strangling the Singaporeans and Frenchies with intellectual-property lawsuits.
minus-squareanton@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 days agoThen everyone uses that provider for a few month and they have to raise prices as well or go bankrupt.
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoI’m pretty sure French AI companies (and maybe the others) will have to raise their prices. There is no magical alternative.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·5 days agoThat’s… not how LLM infrastructure works.
This isn’t about anyone blocking access like censorship. This is an economic issue. The LLM companies are all hemorrhaging cash, and none of them have a clear or realistic path to profitability.
Agreed.
What happens when we can buy access to a Singaporean or French LLM on the cheap as the US monoliths raise this paywall?
They’ll lobby to prevent you from doing that, and will try strangling the Singaporeans and Frenchies with intellectual-property lawsuits.
Then everyone uses that provider for a few month and they have to raise prices as well or go bankrupt.
I’m pretty sure French AI companies (and maybe the others) will have to raise their prices. There is no magical alternative.
That’s… not how LLM infrastructure works.