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@edzitron.com has been covering this beat for weeks. I'm glad the WSJ is catching up, but the paper shouldn't really call this exclusive since it's been known and reported on for at least a week.

right but also... who exactly thought burning $7B/year on compute was a sustainable business model? the hype can only carry you so far lol

I think we should up their IPO valuation to $1 trillion from $852 billion after reading this. Clearly the solution is to destroy more the planet by building more datacenters and that takes money!

Eff AI. Eff data centers. And eff “big tech”.

Good. Die faster, AI.

Teeter Totter Wibble Wobble

Because we thought AI would help us. Not take our jobs and leave us homeless. Besides Deepseak is free.

lol damn well I guess they’re screwed then

It would be a shame if folks found out how much silver, platinum, copper and other expensive metals are in data centers. A certain kind of people should definitely not know that.

Better raise the valuation to 20 trillion

Seriously. Their whole sales pitch is what AI can help you do. It's a valid question as is the answer provides.

You joke, but Altman has literally said they just need to make ChatGPT smarter so they can ask it how to be profitable.

AI not what they want it to be? Not at all shocking

Imagine if they charged the actual cost of the compute lol. They’d have no users.

It's weird that you're still pretending it can ever actually pay for itself and isn't a massive and massively obvious pyramid scheme. Didn't you used to understand basic economics back in the day?

Congrats, WSJ, you’re finally getting it.

If you listen closely, you can hear a bubble being stretched to the point of being ready to pop.

UNRELATED EXCLUSIVE - Although most analysts and company leaders will tell you it's well known that forks and kitchens simply do not and cannot mix, our reporters have been able to confirm a *stunning* new fork finding.

I thought AI was going to tell them how to make money. No? Oh well.

Erase it from existence, whether it meets its target or not. Fuck AI.