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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/stability_ai_bills/

"Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues"

"That's on top of the $54 million in wages and operating expenses required to keep the AI upstart afloat."

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Midjourney is profitable, so they fucked up BIG time. Imagine going bankrupt while someone else uses your technology to make money hand over fist.

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago

my psyche desperately wants this to be the first milestone on the path to a world record terra luna speedrun

[–] Al0neStar@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Stability AI's DreamStudio was claimed to have 1.5m+ daily users and Midjourney is claimed to have 1.2m-2.5m. Midjourney still runs through discord so they're saving on bandwidth costs but compute is still very expensive and im not sure how they managed to make 200m.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Midjourney still runs through discord

the only way to interact with our revolutionary product is to use the same gamer app notorious for being infested with cryptocurrency scammers

please invest

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

please invest

I have these 200 pictures of geckos and a couple rolls of reclaimed bubblegum wrapping paper, put me down for $1.2b and 40% ownership

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago

I will start the wiki for 10%