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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by make3 on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:50AM (#49421523)
well, a stroke of luck until the whole US stock market crashes & everyone's retirement funds get cut 40% I guess when people internalize this. it will have to happen sooner or later though I suppose
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by eigenspace on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:51AM (#49421543)
I'd take a market crash over a monopoly in the hands of a ghoul like Altman.

The economy he and his ilk want to build is infinitely worse.

Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by fidotron on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:58AM (#49421642)
In truth it crashes either way.
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by make3 on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:59AM (#49421662)
interestingly also, open weight models are also more effectively run in the cloud, so it creates a weird scenario where the frontier labs crash but the compute providers, not as much
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by eigenspace on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:01PM (#49421694)
I wouldn't be so sure about that. The popping of a bubble is usually just as irrational as its rise.

If investors start fleeing from senseless businesses in the AI sector, that does not mean that sensible businesses will be spared. These things follow herd mentality, and the primary drivers of the herd are greed and fear, not fundamentals or business logic.

Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by cyanydeez on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:02PM (#49421710)
America is pretty close to rhyming with nazi germany circa 1929.
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by aliasxneo on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:37PM (#49422331)
Ok, I'll bite. What's your rationale?
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by isatty on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:46PM (#49422477)
People who say stuff like that are unhinged chronically online trolls. Best not to feed them.
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by Gigachad on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:42PM (#49427337)
Flock powered surveillance state that sends ICE goons to kill random people in areas where there is any resistance to the regime.
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by aliasxneo on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:47AM (#49429563)
That can be a genuine NY Times headline.
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by staticman2 on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:02PM (#49421717)
This is funny because the stock Market has been ahistorically high. My portfolio went up over 20 percent in the last 12 months.

A major correction would be a bummer but we were never entitled to these abnormal gains in the first place.

Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by wasfgwp on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:08PM (#49421811)
It’s not as bad as dot.com of course since all purely AI companies are private and the ones on the market have pretty decent cash flow outside of AI. But the stock market pattern is not that dissimilar, the largest increases are usually just before the crash.
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by rootusrootus on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:34PM (#49422305)
Yeah the last year has been astonishing, my portfolio is kicking ass. But I'm 10 years out from retirement and I am pretty confident a correction is coming; I hope the correction happens soon.
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by missedthecue on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:35PM (#49422310)
The market (s&p500) crashing 40% puts us at levels we haven't seen since 2024, well into the creation of LLMs. Probably a worthwhile trade if it was either/or!