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‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets — Amazon, Walmart and Uber are among early adopters that have introduced caps or discouraged wasteful activity (www.ft.com)
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[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i thought we were talking about OpenAI, antrhropic, etc, not Walmart?

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you read the title? It says to spend Walmart and Amazon's money on AI. And you said "those companies aren't profitable either" which would mean, using normal rules of English grammar, that "Walmart and Amazon aren't profitable and OpenAI and Anthropic aren't profitable either". So what are you talking about? What does "either" mean?

[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ooh I see. my bad. erase the word either from my comment, it wasn't necessary.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

okay, thanks for clarifying. Sorry about having to be kind of pedantic.

[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 1 points 2 weeks ago

oh haha no worries here. I'm often guilty of the same. i don't remember but probably had a sleepy brain when I wrote the original comment