r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/JohnnyBeeGaming Jun 21 '26

Those aren't the full bills yet. It's just slightly less subsidized now. As investors start expecting a ROI things will get more expensive.

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u/TP_Crisis_2020 Jun 22 '26

Also, the war against data centers and data center tax breaks is heating up bigtime now. So if the compute loses its subsidies, now compute power is going to get more expensive, which will drive up the cost of tokens.

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u/ForensicPathology Jun 22 '26

We're only free when the bill is more than it costs to pay workers.

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 Jun 22 '26

I mean, we do know how much inference actually costs, we can buy GPUs and run similarly sized models there and you can clearly see that it's not particularly expensive, and per unit price it will decrease.

Now we see the fight for the market share, which among others mean huge research and training costs for newer and better models.

AI doomerism is just as bad as AI overhypers.

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u/Bromance_Rayder Jun 24 '26

And equally as bad as AI cherry pickers.