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How to solve the increasing frequency of AI generated posts on HN
I moderate a mid sized subreddit (few hundred thousand) and I ban AI spammers on sight with extreme prejudice, but I don't feel like that same attitude meshes well with HN.
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As a company with little other (any?) revenue you have to include all costs though. Data centers, power, hardware, salaries, marketing, etc. Not just training models and serving requests. I don’t see how it’s not subsidized substantially considering how much money they’re burning right now (I only base that on their rounds though).
That's not really how people discuss subsidies and finances though. Yea I guess a not-profitable company means that every operation is technically a "subsidy", but again, that's not really what those words mean. Anthropic (as the ever-chosen example) has explicitly stated they've made more money than they've spent on training when they sell/serve a particular model in the past. They said that the reason they're negat…
Saying ”we’re positive except the foundation of the company (training models) isn’t” is a tell tale sign.
And I’m sure Anthropic is doing what most others are doing, heavily massaging numbers to make them look good for VC rounds.
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Costco gets to sidestep a lot of regulations because they technically are a private club with paid membership. The US anti-monopoly laws are also unusually weak. In other countries, selling a $7 chicken if it's subsidized by the sale of other goods can indeed be illegal.
Do you have some countries in mind where that's illegal?
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Lmao no. You cannot use your common sim card for that. It's for an individual and they will cut your service and justifiably so, if they figure out that's what you're using it for. If you buy a sim card built for that purpose sure, but then you'll be paying...biz prices! This isn't really that hard to figure out people. So much outrage in comments on this. Self entitlement to the max from people who really haven't li…
So, if I use my SIM card 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, Ill get banned? Doesn’t that seem absurd? The SIM card is enforcing one voice call at a time. If the apartment building has to wait in line to use it, what’s the difference? If you deployed it in a way that did multiplexing such that multiple users could use it at once, then sure—-Business time. But otherwise…
Probably not - you'll get billed or hit a FUP
> Doesn’t that seem absurd? The SIM card is enforcing one voice call at a time. If the apartment building has to wait in line to use it, what’s the difference?
The difference is that it is perfectly acceptable to enforce a "no-reselling" or a "no-3rd-party" for services.
I can't think of a single service provider that provides a consumer tier permitting reselling or 3rd-party use.
I'll admit to knowingly taking advantage of Google's pricing, but I had assumed it was within a gray area. No warning bans are insane.
Google has always done no warning bans YouTube is also full of huge content creators, people who make Google tons of money, that complain about the Byzantine and opaque rules they have to dance around to maintain their livelihood and fan base Google fears their giant userbases so they act with zero regard for communication and transparency because of the small chance it’d help the abusers
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To my understanding, OpenClaw pretends to be Antigravity by using the Antigravity OAuth client ID (and doesn't have its own), and then the takes the token Google returns to instead use with OpenClaw. When I first tried OpenClaw and chose Google Sign-In, I noticed the window appeared saying "Sign into Google Antigravity" with a Google official mark, and a warning it shouldn't be used to sign into anything besides offi…
Ah, ok. I guess there is no way for Google to prevent this since desktop apps are public clients that use PKCE. I imagine Open Claw must also have registered the Antigravity custom URL scheme in order to receive the redirect. Remaining question is how Google determines that traffic is not actually coming from Antigravity.
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Lmao no. You cannot use your common sim card for that. It's for an individual and they will cut your service and justifiably so, if they figure out that's what you're using it for. If you buy a sim card built for that purpose sure, but then you'll be paying...biz prices! This isn't really that hard to figure out people. So much outrage in comments on this. Self entitlement to the max from people who really haven't li…
I can do it pretty easily. The restriction in both cases is so easily overcome it is ridiculous to build your buisness model around it and disrespectful to the customer's intellect.
And? Being able to easily bypass a providers rules does not make that rule invalid.
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No, the problem is that the discounted rate exists in the first place. Essentially these are unfair business practices, product cross subsidization to ensure market dominance. See also: Microsoft and a whole bunch of other companies. And once they've got their monopoly position there is inevitably the rug-pull. I wonder if some CPO somewhere actually had the guts to put a 'rug pull' item on the product roadmap.
So you are saying a company should never reinvest profits in the company to support another money losing business until it’s profitable? Should Netflix for instance not invested money from renting DVDs to invest in a streaming service? Apple not use the profits it was making from selling Apple //e’s to create the Mac?
Not sure that this case is either. This is just idiots breaking the TOS.
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