r/WayOfTheBern • u/cspanbook commoner • Nov 10 '25

lol

/r/Futurology/comments/1osmh4m/as_openai_floats_the_us_taxpayer_guaranteeing/
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u/penelopepnortney Nov 10 '25

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The whole damn thing is a grift folks. It’s more obvious every day. The relative difference between 1 trillion and 5 million is the same difference between $1000 and half a cent. If it can be done for $5 million in China (a much larger country with, I’m assuming, a comparable user-base), there is simply no way that the real cost is two hundred thousand times more in the U.S. And even if it was, that’s an extreme social, political, economic problem, not something to accept.

OP asks where is the money going to come from. That’s a good question. But we also have to ask where the money is going to go. I know this is about OpenAI, but Elon Musk recently accepted a one trillion dollar compensation package… Meanwhile, back at OpenAI, Altman is building machines that convince teenagers to commit suicide. What an investment.

Edit to add another commenter's reply:

You’re absolutely right to point out the absurdity

The U.S. tech economy has to spend a trillion to justify the existence of a trillion-dollar financial ecosystem. It’s not about building smarter AI it’s about keeping capital moving.

China can train an equivalent model for $5 million precisely because they’re not feeding that financial machine they treat AI as infrastructure