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AI has been heavily subsidized since it came out but they are running out of cash to burn, don’t be surprised if it all just goes away one day.

Not all of it, but a whole lot of it.

Oooh, oooh, something I understand enough to comment on! 😉

OpenClaw itself doesn’t have any built-in AI — it’s a tool that knows how to drive one (or several). People are still trying to sort out the terminology here, but it’s probably best described as an “agentic harness”, which is ghastly but here we are.

It basically handles stuff like interfacing with WhatsApp or Telegram or whatever, and provides access to the Internet from the computer it’s running on, plus places to store files and memories — stuff like that.

The actual AI is normally separate — you can run it locally but you need pretty decent hardware to do that (think a fancy gaming rig as a starting point) and it’s a hobby in and of itself to get it up and running.

So people almost always use external providers. GPT and Claude are the best, but there are a bunch of competitors — and the cheapest of these are cheap enough that you can get a month’s worth of usage out of the free tier on their respective platforms.

And yeah even with the subsidies that QuasiModo mentioned, using Claude for mine costs about $25 every couple of days. If they were charging at cost it would likely be more like $75.

Not all of it, but a whole lot…

Paging Charles Ponzi, Charles Ponzi to a red courtesy phone.

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I don’t want any of that.
Grok did make a cute cartoon for my sister inlaw who was new to raising chickens.

Would someone please head over to the Celebrity Dead Pool and choose Barney Frank !!!!!

He is in hospice and headed for Glory… or a glory hole more likely.

Sounds like a security nightmare to me. The AI companies are complacent, almost to the point of negligence, about securing their products.

Having an agent inside your network perimeter that connects out to AI on the internet is just asking for trouble. More so, if you give it usernames and passwords to your whatsapp, gmail or whatever.

That’s why you isolate it on its own computer and accounts. I’m not ready for it yet, though.

Interesting, Giles. So I take it you’re running it?

If it’s any consolation to you all, my comments (annoyingly) don’t get automatically approved, either. I have to approve them manually.

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The comment above is interesting. It’s spam, but it’s topical. Spam is getting smarter – probably AI.

I de-linked it and let it through.

Great Schneier’s Shinpads! Spam is taking on the characteristics of web activity tracking directed advertising! As soon as I was surprised by that I realized I shouldn’t be: natural procession.

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Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!

So I posted that little cartoon via x for you. It made her day at a time when she was doubting herself .

Sorry, just saw the message to me above! Yes, I do have my own one running. But it’s on its own VM with no access to any of my stuff (unless I put it there) and it’s on a completely different network (technically, its own VLAN). I talk to it over Telegram, and it has its own email address and so on. So if something does go horribly wrong, the blast radius is limited.