incidentally, if you frequent the "AI" space and are wondering why certain services have gotten "stupider" lately, it's because running this stuff is INSANELY expensive, so they're being throttled. the amounts of energy and computational power required for that is nuts, we're talking about power bills in the six, seven figures kinda stuff, maybe more -- the numbers aren't that well publicized
they cut the power to those systems (and made them "dumber") because the numbers don't add up unless they find a way to either get infinite amounts of venture capital money injected into them constantly or a source of free or extremely cheap energy they can suck up from the rest of the world. the first is there, but the money required is so high they are actually starting to consider pushing for the second one. and the more people use these services, the more the costs rise -- an unavoidable direct correlation that will only get higher.
that's the dirty secret of "AI". the numbers don't add up without constant injections of cash or, and this is key, finding ways to get governments to subsidize them -- unless people want to pay subscriptions for those services that would make Adobe products blush. and this is why they're pushing so hard to portray themselves as the future of humanity. they need to make us believe we can't live without them for that to happen.
