Ed Zitron
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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The discussion of what if open AI collapses, what if anthropic collapses, and what if all of this was a terrible waste?
I mean that OpenAI is the vast majority of AI compute demand.
I think that they represent anywhere between 70 and 90% of all compute demand.
Their revenue makes up the majority of AI revenue with Anthropic.
Nobody would have done any of this were it not for ChatGPT.
And really, without OpenAI's continued subsidization of its free users and even its paid users,
AI would never have grown this big.
There would have never been justification for all of these data centers, and there would have been no justification for investing in companies like Anthropic.
These companies are only this way because they were enabled by hyperscalers, and they only continue to inflate because of OpenAI's influence over culture, which is directly a result of hyperscalers propping it up.
Not really.
I hate to say that.
I hate to push back, but we actually do not have a tangible shred of proof that this is actually producing return on investment for anyone.
We have engineers that swear by it, but we have studies that say that engineers are actually slower when they use generative AI.
We have a lot of companies that have claimed they're laying people off because of AI, but that's AI washing.
Sam Altman himself said companies are AI washing, which is they fire people claiming it's because of AI productivity, but what it really is is just they're trying to save costs, in some cases because of how much AI costs.
And as far as what LLM-based services do, most people ask AI boosters.
They'll tell you code, search, and brainstorming.
The same thing they said a year ago.
That's because that's pretty much all these models can do.
And they're all horribly unprofitable as well.
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