• [deleted]@piefed.world
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    Pretty sure they picked the wrong tech to try and lock people into. It isn’t hardware and doesn’t have some kind of proprietary interface that takes time to get used to when switching. Some models might be better than others at specific things, but not enough to justify the prices they are going to charge for output you have to review and fix.

    This is literally the easiest thing to jump ship from.

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      That’s the stupidest thing about these AI companies’ valuation.

      They don’t even really own anything!

      Their models – their main proprietary IP – are not copyrightable, and not legally protected in any way. Any competitor can copy them at any time and then offer the same service for cheaper, without the overhead costs for training. The giants of the AI industry could easily be undercut and replaced at any time.

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        The hardest part about the copying is the actual copying without having access to the weights or even just a ready to run file for the model.

        IIRC Deepseek kinda did something like that by asking ChatGPT tons of questions to train their own model or something

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      All of them also bring their own comfortable export feature.

      “I want to share all of this with my team. Create the prompt that is necessary to do this”

    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social
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      This is literally the easiest thing to jump ship from.

      It depends how heavily you are leaning on ML tools to do business processes honestly.

      It’s easy to implement something that mostly works and doesn’t need a ton of baby sitting, but moving from one solution to another is like rebuilding an ERP if you have gotten deep enough into the weeds.

      This bubble is super scary though. The only things I can see propping it up would be world governments once the tech companies and other large enterprises halt spending. I don’t think the US can shoulder the costs and nobody else is gonna lol

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        Have you seen the IPOs and the rule changes that the stock exchanges and index funds made to please the AI overlords? It’ll be US pension funds left holding the bag when the bubble goes pop

    • one_old_coder@piefed.social
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      This is literally the easiest thing to jump ship from.

      I’m not sure about that. We see professional developers complaining all the time when their AWS or GitHub account is banned. But this time we’re talking about vibe coders who have less skills than the average developer.