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Comment by ctoth

19 hours ago

It has been years now of reading this same comment... Surely people can't keep typing it forever.

But the prices haven't been going up by multiples of 6 for the past few years. Things are actually changing now. I don't think it's over, but in the short term, it's going to be considerably more expensive.

  • They will smooth up the spike. Or be subtle and transform the existing quota so that they run out more quickly. Calling it caching, compression, optimisation, of course for the sacred benefit of the users.

    That would be, even is, the smart thing to do.

  • And it didn't really get flawless, did it? All the same objections stand, but the cost is inevitably blowing up for the same kinda jank product.

The difference is we're now in a world where Disney has pulled out of OpenAI without comming, and Sora was dropped off a ditch.

In other words.

The bubble has burst. You're just in denial.

  • My read is that the bubble as burst internally (angels, seeds, VCs, and even corporate got a grasp of the inflated promise). It will take while for the actual bubble to implode.