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counterpoint: it gives openai more money
not necessarily/could be offset? openai is still in that "we'll set fire to money to make ourselves look good" stage of VC dreamery; find entities operating on credits, slap there
but possibly even in the case where it's still straight transactional, it might be a net negative for them: revenue, actual usage, and still no meaningful shift on their product becoming good. it'll just make them look even worse
the bigger problem (to which this suggestion would most certainly contribute things getting worse) is that they're still burning other important resources. I don't really have a good/clever proposal to this which isn't something like "well, burn their DCs to the fucking ground" (or other more creative forms of invasive service interruption)
they will burn through that money pretty quickly and without turning profit, however this can contribute to one of their ratfucked metrics to go up, which could hype up some segment of stonk market. because now they're fueled by hype and vc money, any new thing that would sustain that hype would be a bad thing (adoption here, kinda, at least as seen through excel)
i agree, 120mm mortar is much cheaper, faster, more irreversible, but openai going bankrupt and forced to sell their kit at least would generate less waste
and a net positive in terms of human happiness