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sdi ([personal profile] sdi) wrote in [personal profile] boccaderlupo 2025-06-02 02:45 pm (UTC)

at what point would it just be more economical to simply pay a person to write said copy?

I think the answer is that is "at the very beginning" (e.g. don't involve LLMs at all). My reasoning is threefold:

1. OpenAI loses money on every request, even for their paying and SaaS customers.
2. Despite [1], LLMs have failed to take off in even a modest way: the LLM "industry" (which is basically just OpenAI, as it makes up almost all AI revenue) remains small in economic terms.
3. We have a massive labor crisis in the country.

To put it another way, a couple people at the apex of the LLM "industry" seem to be making a lot of money (e.g. Altman, Musk, Pichai, Nadella, etc.), at the expense of their businesses, the American tech sector, the dollar, and Western society as a whole.

The only way I can see that any of this makes sense is if (generously) LLMs were meant from the beginning to be a controlled demolition of the dollar or (cynically) LLMs were meant from the beginning to be a con to part investors from their money. Either way, it is well-described by the "Ra"/Teiresias theory where a few people are developing their negative polarization by preventing the execution of the free will of many.

Sorry to harp on this, but I want to emphasize it's pettiness: it's important to not worry about it. Don't look down! Focus on divinity!

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