AI Accounting Meme: EBITDARSWDPMTC Excludes Model Training Costs
prateekj · x · 2026-09-15
- A viral AI-finance joke invents a new metric: EBITDARSWDPMTC — "Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization, Revenue Share with Distribution Partners, and Model Training Cost."
- The punchline satirizes how AI companies justify losses: since model training spend is routinely treated as excludable when pitching profitability, why not bake it into the acronym itself?
- Under the humor lies a real industry issue — with massive training bills, most AI firms would look unprofitable under traditional accounting definitions.
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