„Die Rechenkosten übersteigen bei weitem die Kosten der Mitarbeiter“: Nvidia-Manager sagen, dass KI derzeit teurer ist als die Bezahlung menschlicher Arbeitskräfte

For the same quality, it’s true for the majority of employees. If it wasn’t, we would all be unemployed obviously. But many people / companies don’t care about the quality and are ok with paying 10% of the price for 30% of the quality.

Yep, and every AI sales pitch quietly skips the part where the cleanup bill shows up later lol.

It’s efficient when used properly: to generate small blocks of code, identify the cause of bugs or potential issues. The context window is relatively small and the changes are easily viewed and understood.

When people are just generating slop projects over and over again no wonder the costs are getting out of hand.

Are we still under the delusion this is about economics? The goal is to undermine the value of labor and one day replace the need for people — NOT to grow. These people have more money than they can spend without causing inflation.

It is about control. If it were about economics they’d do more for education, infrastructure and well-being. Real productivity isn’t that good for people constantly worried about bills and healthcare and the like. I know. The less I made, the more distracted I was at work. I’m smartest when I’m happy.

Productivity goes up with less than 40 hour work weeks, but they’d rather people have two jobs and be zombies — easier to control. Our diet is not meant to do anything but make us fat and compliant.

But it’s still worth it to rub it in the noses of those stupid humans….

We live in perverse times.

This has been the Silicon Valley MO for *yeeeeaaaarrrsss*. Operate at a loss until you’ve forced out the competition, then jack up prices to become profitable.

Look at Uber- chase out the taxis by undercutting them, then raise fares.

DoorDash- wait till all the pizza shops fire their drivers, then raise fees.

Streaming- undercut cable TV until everyone’s cut the cord, then raise subscription costs and add advertising.

AI is just doing the same shit. They’re waiting for businesses to restructure around AI, and then they’ll start charging what it actually costs (plus margin, of course).

Non-paywalled link:
https://archive.is/lshJ6#selection-355.0-355.142

And it can delete your files and backups in under 10 seconds.

If it wasn’t for all the vc money heavily subsidising it companies wouldn’t be wanting to pay the actual cost of it

Its like the start of uber at the moment

This is hilarious 🤣

So _what’s the fucking point in it then_ Nvidia?

Note the operative word here: **FAR**. The cost is *far* beyond the cost of employees. Not slightly beyond, not twice the cost, **FAR** beyond. So probably orders of magnitude higher.

It’s also worth noting that this is just compute cost. Just running cost. This doesn’t include the cost of building the data center or replacing burned-out hardware.

And all of this expense just to get something so unreliable that it has to be babysat by humans anyway.

AI is an enormous grift as it stands. It’s wrong, often, convincingly, and refuses to learn. It doesn’t even matter what the cost is. Outside of error interpretation and some coding, it has no function because there isn’t a function that can tolerate a guaranteed error rate. I sure as fuck don’t want my medical diagnoses done by a system that will actively gaslight you rather than re-evaluate.

Reckless sociopaths are driving society into a canyon and everybody is assuming they will hit the brakes.

I’ve been saying this for months. Clients are asking us how our AI use is going to lower their fees but it’s actually costing us more so fees go up. At some point it might be beneficial to have a No AI Use company tag to sell work.