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> over and refusing to acknowledge it. I guess one option would be to vote with your walled and stop paying them? Oh.. wait.. Whatever Oracle is in general this specifically (and t…

There is. Specifically the pricing for open models from third party providers on OpenRouter since inference is a "commodity" at this point. Unless we think that Opus/GPT-5.6 are ma…

That's what you should ask the companies spending massive amounts of money on AI though?

There is no evidence they are losing money on inference, though? Also if they are keeping the price low because they want to gain market share and reduce the competitiveness of Chi…

They claimed that OpenAI and Anthropic have positive gross margins. I don't think there are many credible claims saying that's not the case (at least for API usage)?

Cost of labor is based on supply and demand not the value created. If there were more engineers capable of creating those JS frameworks than there was demand for they'd get paid wa…

Switzerland was already the second richest country in Europe in 1913 despite not having a colonial empire to exploit, ample raw resources or the best geographic location.

> So? Imagine you build a house and it only increases in value after you sold it? How is this relevant? We are not talking about the author selling the copyright of their work and …

> seemingly moral justifications of an empirically immoral practice How is it empirically immoral? Historically it was one of the best things to have have happened to creative prof…

Because the judge ruled that using the books for training was "fair use". The issue was Anthropic downloading and storing pirated content and there is quite a bit of precedent rega…

It would also make it much easier for corporations to exploit authors. They would generally make most of their money early (in the couple of years following when the content is rel…

Well no, but I'm a human and not a commercial computer program so it's not particularly relevant. I'm would not be making loads of money making those citations either but that's on…

It's up to the congressman to weight all evidence and data available and come to well informed conclusion. If they are incapable or unwilling to do that that's a different issue. >…

Funding their reelection, industry "connections" making it easy for you or your relatives to get jobs or make profitable investments, opportunities to get speaking fees after you l…

Well a funding a PAC that supports a specific candidate/party who gets elected because of that effectively accomplishes the same thing. Of course the salary the company "buys" for …

Money is relative, though. I guess the question is if it's acceptable to charge a tiny symbolic fee for that cup of water if the other person's pockets are visibly overflowing with…

You can also buy a book produce a large number of copies after jumbling around some chapters sell it to other people. That's illegal to do if you are person but not if you an AI co…

> the marginal value that the next buyer would buy Well the argument is that they should pay for the right to produce derivative works not for the physical copy.

It was about piracy, though? Not fair use.

For corporations sure. For individual authors that's certainly not fair. Especially since it makes it easier for corporations to exploit their work without paying them anything. > …

Well imagine you write a book in your 20s or 30s and it only becomes popular after a couple of decades. The publisher gets to pocket all the money. Somebody decides to make a movie…

> Arguably they should have just gone with Android, It's not obvious Nokia could have realistically competed with the East Asian phone manufacturers for more than a few years. It w…

Well it might be reasonably easy to get your non-GAAP earnings positive if you fiddle with the numbers enough.

It's not like it's realistically possible they are directly losing money on their API inference (subscriptions are maybe less clear but I think it wouldn't be far fetched to think …

Will it be? It's so obscenely slow and expensive and its not obvious it could provide a lot of value for non highly specialized tasks.