• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    The cost of AI to do all this will be higher than any profits they could possibly make, but the managers who came up with this shot already committed and in the end they can just put that cost on the consumers anyway

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      One man’s cost is another man’s profit.

      At some point, Walmart execs sitting on a pile of NVIDIA stock won’t see this as a loss for them. It will just become an excuse to trim spending - on healthcare, on wages, on wholesale costs, on maintenance of their fleets and facilities - everywhere that isn’t AI.