Andrew Marantz

And people are doing these quizzes all the time of, you know, can you tell what's AI writing and what's Cormac McCarthy?

And, you know, people know better than 50 percent and stuff.

So we don't—

That promises well for our profession.

Yeah, well, so this is why I was going to say we word people don't like thinking about this.

But it turns out that it kind of is the case that if you take all the words in the universe, crunch them onto a chip, it can kind of create a golem of new words that can kind of infinitely spit out.

Like a lot of these dual-use technologies, you know, even the most dire critics of this stuff

can't deny that it's useful and fun and engaging.

And, you know, if it weren't so useful, it wouldn't pose such an economic threat.

Well, this also gets to the circularity of a lot of these deals, like a lot of times a meme that you'll see when describing one of –

OpenAI has a deal with NVIDIA, and NVIDIA has a deal with Amazon, and Amazon has a deal with OpenAI.

People will just put a picture of an extension cord plugged into itself.

Like, there are a lot of these deals that are like, I buy your stuff, you buy my stuff.

Well, how big and do they make a profit are different questions.

They are burning through cash at an enormous rate.

I mean, so...

While this piece was in production, we kept having to change.

They've just sustained the biggest fundraising round in history to a higher number because they kept closing more fundraising rounds.

The latest, I think, was $122 billion.

And at the same time, they're still, as far as we can tell, losing money.