Comment Re:Computational Demand (Score 1) 24
The demand is real... whether they can scale the workload down to actually make money remains to be seen.
Realistically, they simply need to increase the price which solves the over-subscription problem and expense problem.
Long term there are major benefits to society if they can drive down the cost of energy, cooling, and computational infrastructure to support democratized access to LLMs and diffusion models without bankrupting providers.
At best, that is wishful thinking.
I would just settle for a decent search engine that didn't require me to go to page 3 of search results (and forcing me to verify that I'm a human for daring to click to page 2 of the search)
Welcome to the shiternet. Fuck you because they have you by the balls.