“But LLMs are too expensive! They cost too much to run, and said costs appear to increase linearly with revenues.”
Our reading:
LLMs cost too much to run and their costs appear to scale linearly with revenue.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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Why
'LLMs are too expensive' and 'cost too much to run' are value judgments with no benchmark. The factual part, that costs 'appear to increase linearly with revenues', is hedged and names no company, cost measure, or period. Testing it as a strict proportional rule would turn an impression into a firm claim he did not make. Microsoft's disclosures show AI usage pressing on margins, which fits his general point but does not test linear scaling. The claim cannot fairly be scored.
Caveats
- A narrower version naming a company, a cost measure and a period could be tested against lab financials.
Evidence (1 item)
Claims like this aren’t scored, so there is no evidence to show.
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Observation
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Where we had to interpret
- 'Too expensive' and 'cost too much to run' are value judgments with no stated benchmark.
- 'Appear to increase linearly with revenues' is hedged. It names no company, cost measure, or period, so there is no firm proportional relationship to test.
- Because the firm parts are value judgments and the factual part is hedged and unspecific, there is no plain reading that could be scored.
We don’t grade claims like this. We only check the quote and who said it.
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Where's Your Ed At, AI Is Too Expensive, paragraph 43.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2026-05-19.
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: Where's Your Ed At, AI Is Too Expensive
But LLMs are too expensive! They cost too much to run, and said costs appear to increase linearly with revenues.
- Where
- paragraph 43
- Published
- 2026-05-19
- We read it
- , live page
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- full text, public
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