Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

Posted Apr 18, 2024 18:55 UTC (Thu) by atnot (subscriber, #124910)
In reply to: Gentoo bans AI-created contributions by snajpa
Parent article: Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

Sorry, but $100 is just nowhere near enough to cover the cost of running these things. Microsoft charges their enterprise customers roughly 4x that and not even they have remotely turned a profit on it. In fact to my knowledge, not a single company has ever turned a profit with an LLM offering at any price point. And they'd be yelling it from the rooftops if they did.

It's also notable that even at that price, they have to give deep discounts to enterprise customers so that they can proudly announce companies like McKinsey getting on board. Not because they have any use for it either mind you, but to be able to "better answer our customers questions about AI".

Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

Posted Apr 18, 2024 21:17 UTC (Thu) by snajpa (subscriber, #73467) [Link]

At that scale, they also have massive opportunities to optimize and cut the total amount of work they need to do, just by looking at the data that goes through and balancing it against the compute costs (using heuristics, for example, how often is the suggested code accepted, etc.).