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  • meh... thats not what happens when the 'bubble' bursts... it just means that the extremely wealthy will be able to purchase all the de-valued ai resources and keep chuggin along.

    ie, at no point in the future will the resources required or expended for llm use drop.

    • Depends on what bursts the bubble. If it's the users realizing it isn't actually useful, and demand plummets, those datacenters will be a fire sale from companies collapsing, but operating the sites may not be anywhere near profitable anymore.

      Every one of these companies knows that LLMs aren't actually capable of what they're marketing and are hoping they can keep riding the edge until they either can do what they claim, or they can abandon ship. They're banking on company executives being idiots and prioritizing the possible cost savings of firing staff (a very safe bet) and end users not realizing the grift because of a lack of accurate info (also a pretty safe bet nowadays).

      • i spose. as a data engineer of sorts, the llm use im exposed to is not going to be disrupted by some bubble. its providing real world efficiencies shifting cost centers from messy human salaries to 24/7 b2b services. whole call centers automated. analytical departments literally decimated. human beings are the costliest part of any business, and thats why so much effort is being put to replaces those human resources.

        my success every year is based on how many positions i eliminated implementing automation processes.

        for every obvious use of an llm, there are a hundred back-end, non-customer facing services being implemented. this is where people are actually currently losing their jobs, and those jobs arent coming back.

        its hard to envision any bubble that is going to stop that apart from the american civil war 2.0.... and even then, id be skeptical.

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