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   kpfssport (kpfssport@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2026 15:54:24 JST kpfssport

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   • Janne Moren
   • Tim Bray

   @jannem @timbray I think you have summed it up very well. There's use but not need and I can't see people willing to subscribe, or not enough willing to pay high enough subscriptions, for it to work.

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     Janne Moren (jannem@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2026 15:54:25 JST Janne Moren

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     • Tim Bray

     @timbray
     Around me (non-IT people) I see a very random-seeming split between people who reach for AI tools in their personal life and those who don't.

     But I see absolutely nobody who would be willing to pay for the service. Whatever revenue they can get for AI use would be limited to what they can bake in as a "free" service in a phone contract or similar.

     Even if some industries switch wholesale to AI tooling, that level of spending seems plainly impossible.

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     Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2026 15:54:26 JST Tim Bray

     Hey, still more not-exactly-hippies casting side-eyes on the financial prospects for #GenAI, in this case the Wall Street Journal, in “Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It
     To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food”

     https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/will-america-spend-9-of-its-gdp-on-ai-the-industry-is-counting-on-it-3501bb4f?st=eJNL7P&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink