[stockerta]

And those same providers are burning how much money each day with this shit?

[Applejinx]

And carbon. Not just money. There's more externalities to it than just burning money.

[monsieurbanana]

Because they want to control as much of the market as possible, everyone and their dog is using LLMs for work and mails and groceries.

That doesn't change their usefulness, if tomorrow they all increase the price x10 it will remain useful for many use cases. Not to mention than in a year or two the costs might go down an order of magnitude for the same accuracy.