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Revolut says that in less than a year it's managed to slash its [code generation] costs by roughly 90 percent by making self-hosted models its default instead of relying primarily on commercial services like Claude.

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[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Private copying levy was implemented to compensate greedy media industry. This was included in the price of every writable massmedia device in Finland until 2015.

Maybe something similar could be used with AI. Directly compensating for the victims of ip theft would be pretty impossible but the money could be used to fund art programs and such. AI companies would be the ones paying, based on the usage their models have, be it online or self hosted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

At least in my country, business can ask for a full refund of that unjust tax by declaring the drives are not used to store pirated movies/songs

[–] LemmyBeFree@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

what about open models, and the proportion they should pay in each country…

Eh, not sure if it will work