• NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Well, I take that to mean that Google (ad profit), Meta (ad profit), and Nvidia (hardware profit) are profitable companies even if AI is a notorious money-sink. I do agree that if they weren’t able to absorb vertigo-inducing billions of dollars of AI losses via their other income, the AI bubble would have popped already.

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      6 days ago

      Ah yeah, I see what you mean. When the article mentioned AI companies, I was thinking of OpenAI, Anthropic etc. only, but true that Google could absorb a hit from a bubble. Not sure how they’ll do long term, since they’re all in on this and planning to remake completely how you search with them.

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      4 days ago

      Except LLMs are hurting Google’s ad revenue. Companies don’t want to pay for views they can’t verify are even people. On top of their LLM results box pushing their sponsored results down the page, and removing people’s likelihood to click into any links, where AdSense might be present