Eats shoots and leaves.

Token sold by AI companies are unprofitable because they are spending 100s of millions retraining their models every month to stay ahead of the other frontier models. They are net negative because they aren't currently fully recouping their training and infra costs. They are trying to boil the frog by gradually raising prices to cover their actual overhead + R&D before the VC/IPO money runs out.

You can RUN a model for cheaper than the tokens from a frontier AI company would cost you, depending on your hardware amortization horizon and how good you are at keeping that hardware busy doing something useful. You can get an idea of the actual cost to run at scale by looking at the pricing for the big open weight models on openrouter. For example, deepseek-v4pro is ~$.20 in/$3.50 out vs $5/$25 for opus-4.8 from Anthropic.

Models are just a pile of matrix math. They can't do anything on your computer if you don't run them connected to an agent that gives them access to a shell or other OS-level access. You can run them inside a chatbot-only style interface with no local agent.

Training involves making thousands (millions?) of unauthorized copies and then using those copies to create a derivative work for commercial gain. That is criminal copyright violation when you or I do it, but if you've got a few billion in VC funding then I guess it's fine.

None of that is true. Grow up and learn how to understand and rate journalism. Start with Appling the spj code of ethics to media.
" Anyone who defends that is off the deep end self-deluding and in full on denial of reality. "
So you post a factual incorrect statement then call anyone with facts delusional. JFC, take some actual media course. Like, in a class room.

He's incapably of learning. I don't thing he has learned anything since 1980.

OFFS lease stop lying. You wither didn't read it, or didn't understand it.
Some of us remember when he was alive, and read went o to study him.
If you actually know what you were talking about, you would understand the difference between Marxist communism and socialism.

Liars like you have become tiresome.

No, you did not. Yor just making things up becasue you are likely functionally illiterate, can'[t hold complex thought or idea, and have no clue how to admit you are wrong. I pity you, Because your are embarrassingly wrong.

That's actually not true at all. Please tell me how many American FDR called evil? Literally one of the, if not the most socialist president whose social programs led to American become a technological and industrial power house.

American modern conservatives primary planks are to take rights away from marginalized group; which s fucking evil.

Get over yourself and read some books.

'Lot of money'. Not really. Historical what they do give is pretty divided, depending on the actual issues.

Your kink actual shows it is. The lawsuit is BS, like most Trumps lawsuits. He is trying extort them is get their companies to kiss his ass and not say anything against them. The is SOP for Trump, going back to the 90s.
This is actual censorship by the governemnt.

Web forums, Usenet, and blogs, personal pages, web rings. You know, back when people went to more than 3 websites.

It's not a check performed by the steam client. As a developer, you upload your final .exe to valve and get a modified DRM-enabled copy back. You then included this modified.exe in the final bundle you upload to steam for publication.

I suspect it just wraps your code in a watchdog that makes a few steam API calls to check for a valid license before transferring control to your original game code. Valve explicitly states that it is only trying to prevent casual copying and not a determined attacker. But just copying the game folder to a new computer and trying to run it via wine not logged into steam will fail without jumping through some hoops to strip the wrapper.

https://partner.steamgames.com...

You own the physical media as a matter of first sale, but the bits on the disc are inert. In order to get the software to run, it must be copied into ram or onto the hard drive. At that point you are in a copyright regime, not a first sale regime. Hence the need for a license to run the software from the copyright holder to actually use the software.

Steam packaged games have DRM. It has to phone home periodically and verify the license on the game or it will stop working. Some devs opt out of the built in DRM, but not all do. It might be steam DRM is fairly weak and can be cracked, but just backing up your local steam library is not enough to ensure a game will work offline indefinitely. The steam library will look for a signed, timestamped license attestation from valve, and if it is too old or absent, the staem wrapper wont allow the game to run.