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trhway 79 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Generative AI Con

cash on hands GOOG - 100B, AMZN - 80B, FB - 70B, and their core businesses are basically printing money, so they pretty much do have to invest into new things. If somebody sees a multi-billion dollar sink better than AI right now ...

Hasu 78 days ago | [–]

> If somebody sees a multi-billion dollar sink better than AI right now ...

I think if they could find a way to make their software good, instead of bad, like it increasingly is, that would be a good use of that money.

krainboltgreene 78 days ago | [–]

Workers, infrastructure, taxes…

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