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   Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 00:23:26 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

   RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/115651773214269698

   Since May is halfway over, I think my timeline projection was wrong, but the AI companies are certainly playing with fire.

   They're currently doing what might be called "enshittification" if they were any other SaaS: lower usage limits, pricing restructuring to capture more value for themselves, etc.

   This isn't the sort of thing that will kill off the use of LLM technology or even generative AI as a whole. So-called "local models" will likely persist the AI bubble pop.

   But what won't survive is the service model where AI users' data is funneled into a third-party service provider and processed by an LLM.

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     Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 00:25:12 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

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     It's hard to gauge exactly when this might happen.

     The AI companies are certainly positioning themselves for a massive bail-out, hoping the Trump administration will hand them trillions of dollars because they're "too big to fail" if enough CEOs force their employees to adopt this tech.

     (Which logically means people who resist it are a threat to their scheme.)

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     cratermoon (cratermoon@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 00:56:38 JST cratermoon

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     @soatok the longer the grift continues before the bubble pops, the bigger and more destructive the bang

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     Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 00:57:11 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

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     • Softwarewolf

     @faoluin I don't think their plan will succeed, but that's how they've been positioning

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     Softwarewolf (faoluin@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 00:57:12 JST Softwarewolf

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     @soatok I don't think there will be a bailout, not the scale they're hoping for, and not without majorly damaging the value of the US dollar.

     That might be the hopium talking though.

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     Skewray Research (skewray@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 00:57:22 JST Skewray Research

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     @soatok I assume you mean, "Too Evil to Fail."

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     Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 02:19:02 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

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     • mlen

     @mlen I don't have a horse in this race.

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     mlen (mlen@social.hackerspace.pl)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 02:19:04 JST mlen

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     @soatok I'm sceptical that local models will be viable in the long term. Without new models being trained, they will become increasingly outdated.