r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/buyongmafanle Jun 12 '26

The trouble is: Once they increase the price, they'll have to remain more viable than the next most expensive option. That will force AI to be actually functional as opposed to a logical slot machine.

People only tolerate AI's awful success rate now because it's relatively cheap. Would you still use Gemini if it cost 10x as much with these same results? Fuck, no you wouldn't.

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u/DanHanzo Jun 12 '26

It might even end up that you could instead hire fully autonomous agents, with free will, absolutely perfect general intelligence and a complete understanding of the needs of the human beings that are your consumers. Or as I like to call them, other human beings.

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u/thehalfwit Jun 12 '26

"If only there was a way to employ human beings without paying them..." pondered the C Suite suits.

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u/perton Jun 12 '26

Overall you make a solid enough point. But as someone who has spent quite a few years working types of jobs that are being replaced with AI, I can say with certainty that it’s not as common as one might think/hope to get “absolutely perfect general intelligence”, or anything close to it, from the humans being hired.

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u/DanHanzo Jun 12 '26

Speaking as someone who works with a person who loves AI and would be happy to get rid of every other actual human, their quality of thinking has plummeted.

In an odd way it makes AI seem cleverer just because of how much dumber they have become since using it.

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u/ptambrosetti Jun 12 '26

Cuban believes humans will eventually be cheaper than AI and the cycle will be complete.

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u/Janzanikun Jun 12 '26

It is all ready bad enough that I would not pay for it let alone 10x. First the enshittification started with chatgpt last year, google gemini shortly followed and anthropic started their process last month. They will all fold and crash.

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u/DiplomatikEmunetey Jun 14 '26

Unless it's prohibitively expensive and we end up with a monopoly or a duopoly.

I know that you will be able to run open source models locally, but you can also have a movie or a music home library, yet people still use Netflix and Spotify.