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The speaker expects Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI to pay more for AI tokens used to automate AI research than consumers will pay for low-value AI-generated content.
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“And at that point,”
“Google or Anthropic or...”
“OpenAI will be willing to pay more for the tokens to automate AI research than you or I will be willing to pay to make more AI slop talk.”Play from 6:33Report a misattribution
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