Every drug dealer offers free or below-cost product to get new customers hooked. I’m sure that AI users are utterly addicted and will pay whatever is demanded for these insanely valuable and not-hallucinating products.
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drug dealers never offer free products to get customers hooked, because if they are already customers they have tried the drugs before. Drug dealers charge full-price because why wouldnt they
jul 28, 2025, 7:41 pm • 24 0 • view
drugs are a product that actually work
jul 28, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view
This is my point
jul 28, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
stop basing your sense of reality off of The Wire
jul 28, 2025, 7:48 pm • 8 0 • view
Never seen The Wire, but happy to stand corrected and acknowledge that I have misrepresented the behaviour of drug dealers Also: not my actual point?
jul 28, 2025, 7:50 pm • 3 0 • view
I have NEVER been offered free drugs by a dealer, and let me tell you, I bought plenty of drugs in my day
jul 29, 2025, 8:37 am • 0 0 • view
This is not, and has never been, true.
jul 28, 2025, 7:47 pm • 6 0 • view
yeah see the thing is they aren't lifelong customers (reason left to the reader) and dealers don't care, all they need is new short term customers
jul 30, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
So the question then is, ‘does that business model work for AI?’
jul 30, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
depends whether we accept Ponzi shape + fraudulent marketing as a "business model" or not
jul 30, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
it doesn't seem sustainable (unlike drug dealing)
jul 30, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Indeed not
jul 30, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
A lot of folks are dunking on you, and it's unfair. Their point is valid: drug dealers don't give away free stuff to get you hooked. The deeper point is that AI products aren't sticky. ChatGPT boasts 500m weekly actives... but only 15m subscribe. That's not what a sticky product looks like
jul 29, 2025, 5:31 am • 3 0 • view
Their point is valid Thank you
jul 29, 2025, 7:33 am • 0 0 • view
🤣
jul 28, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Slightly disturbed at finding myself not the most overliteral person in any given room Predatory pricing (and the puppy dog close) are absolutely things that commercial enterprises do 🤷♂️
jul 28, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Spoken like someone who has never bought drugs
jul 28, 2025, 7:40 pm • 37 0 • view
True dat
jul 28, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Look man, but my shit full price or stop pretending bro
jul 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
💀
jul 29, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Could have just tried to talk about loss leaders but you'd still be wrong so whatever.
jul 29, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view
except it is not, in any true sense, _artificial intelligence_ it's just a great big boring financial scam
jul 30, 2025, 8:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Mike. Baby. You gotta understand. The drug dealer method requires the product to be profitable AND effective. GenAI, as it stands, is neither.
jul 28, 2025, 8:05 pm • 4 0 • view
Which was literally my point.
jul 28, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view