AI bubble heads and doomers seize on Sam Altman's remark that AI costs are a 'huge issue' for some companies
- Altman said that people had been “totally happy” with their AI spending, but that it recently became a “huge issue.”
- Some online commentators warned of a bubble. Others said it was a sign of token misuse.
Still, he remained optimistic.
“I’m bullish that real demand will slowly build up again,” Chen wrote.
Duckbill chief cloud economist Corey Quinn took a more ironic approach. He wrote that Altman was starting to realize that OpenAI’s tokens — the tokens he sells — can be expensive.
“Truly the Copernicus of his generation,” Quinn wrote.