• deWafelMan@lemmus.org
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    2 days ago

    I’m not perplexed. When in doubt,look at the wallets. They’re out of money. The interest on the loans is starting to bite, and their revenues aren’t going up like they hoped.

    • zurohki@aussie.zone
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      Don’t forget all the data centres they’re on the hook for to support demand that isn’t there. As they come online, the operators are going to expect to be paid.

      The slop pushers have a bunch of spending commitments that aren’t technically loans. But they’ll still come due.

      • ContactClosure@lemmus.org
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        I think you mean the data centers that we’re on the hook for. The Ai companies didn’t build the centers, private Equity did. Then the banks looked at all of that lease income and made lease backed securities. Don’t worry though, they’re not like mortgage backed securities, these are way more stable becuase the Ai companies will continue to grow forever!

    • [deleted]@piefed.world
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      With no exponential improvement in efficiency it means they have basically hit the ceiling on LLMs and constsntly increasing compute to make any progress is no longer drawing in massive funding. They just want a reason to maintain the current level while they shift to sucking money out of the people who are stuck with LLM workflows.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      Yep. If they just stop building for financial reasons then it looks like a bad investment. If it’s because “the technology is too good” then they can slow down and act like it’s a good investment at the same time.