• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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      5 days ago

      He profits just fine. The companies not so much.

      Except NVIDIA, they’re making shovels and shitloads and he probably gets something under the table from them too.

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      5 days ago

      Just like the circular deals 90% of the “profits” we’ve seen reported by these AI companies is just fake money

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        They don’t really report profits since so much is circular. They just increase both sides of the profit/loss equation at once which makes them look bigger without actually making any profit.

        If you, I and a third person create three companies and just pass the same 100 dollar bill in a circle 10 times a minute as full time jobs 48 weeks a year ignoring holidays, we’d each have 115 million in revenue to report. We’d just also each have 115 million in expenses so there’s no profit.