@lilithsaintcrow The only difference between the grift and someone who genuinely believes in what they are doing is that the grifter doesn’t care if the business succeeds; only that they get their cut. The money they don’t take gets spent in the usual ways: paying salaries, buying equipment, buying services and consumables, et cetera. In this case salaries are a lot of it, as AI developers are highly paid, but much goes to building and operating huge data centers. /2