Post by @aesthelete@lemmy.world

2026-09-25 06:08 UTC

There’s no way that the long term billing for AI is tokens. It’s not budgetable, it’s arbitrary, and eventually people will figure out ways to either game it or evade it. It’s much more likely that they get crammed full of ads and become useless than it is that they become profitable charging via token IMO.

Replies (4)

@iocase@lemmy.zip 2026-09-26 05:51

Whats funny is enshittifying is a suicide button wheb you can run deepseek or a different open weight model on your own machine. That i own. In my house. Without ads or censorship

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@UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2026-09-25 10:17

There is applications and ways to make money. But competition isn’t hard to come by and profit will be under expectations. So my expectations is “skill-based programming” will become too expensive as a long-term solution and people who went that route will quickly become uncompetitive.

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@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-25 11:59

The plan is for them to make agentic AI and charge a yearly salary per agent. They are obviously not close to that goal, or you would hear more about it.

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@homura1650@lemmy.world 2026-09-25 15:16

Pretty much all cloud compute is charged by usage (CPU time, storage, ingress, egress, class X api calls, etc), and is notoriously unpredictable. Businesses deal with it because, despite the unpredictability, it is cheaper than any other model could viably be offered at. Consumer facing products will likely adopt different models; but “AI” is not a product, and most AI products will be bought by businesses.

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