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  • Theodora Wardtheodoraward@wandering.shop
    Nov 1, 2026, 11:50 PM

    the idea that hallucinations are a little glitch we're juuuust about to work out is one of the most fundamental and maddening obfuscations of this entire bubble. it has been 9 years since attention is all you need, 6 since RAG, and 4 since chatgpt. we have blown more wealth on this technology than arguably any major project in the history of civilization. is "reliable pizza ordering" coming at 10 trillion parameters? maybe another $500,000,000,000 will do it

    Mayer said that while foundation models are still improving, the market is in a "transitionary period" until the technology can perform more involved web tasks and phone calls as efficiently as people.
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  • Theodora Wardtheodoraward@wandering.shop
    Nov 2, 2026, 1:54 PM

    also what the hell is this "foundation models" stuff? is that a way of rebranding the fact that these products are all built around doubly-subsidized api calls to one of two companies who will probably be jacking up their prices soon? the structure of that sentence as i typed it makes me think that i believe this is the answer. i want to speak to the Business Terms They Use In The Newspaper manager i have a god damnn complaint

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  • Theodora Wardtheodoraward@wandering.shop
    Nov 2, 2026, 8:59 PM

    @fivetonsflax @davidgerard oh, interesting! my "double" came from (maybe wrongly) assuming token-based billing prices are still subsidized, and then that any given AI startup is also doing the classic VC thing of making early pricing artificially cheap. i like your framing though

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