AI isn't more expensive than humans: capability cost curves crash, retail prices mislead
Nawozane · reddit · 2026-11-03
A Reddit essay argues against claims that AI is costlier than humans once infrastructure is counted. Today's frontier prices don't predict future costs — open-weight models match frontier capability at a fraction of the cost within months. Retail prices aren't actual running costs, and Anthropic's internal AI spend exceeding payroll says nothing about the cost of the same work done by humans. Machine cognitive work will eventually be orders of magnitude cheaper for most tasks.
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