• eldebryn@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      This isn’t typical price gouging. It’s an industry moving away from consumers because our buying power is nothing compared to large corporations running on AI circlejerk VCs.

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        I mean, it is also that OpenAI cornered the RAM market, which is a typical price gouging scenario; it’s just weird that OpenAI wasn’t trying to make money directly through the maneuver. It does seem like they wanted prices to rise, though, to increase the barrier to competition.

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          It’s almost like unregulated capitalism is a certain highway to oligarchy and authoritarianism.