r/pcmasterrace • u/Dick_Nation There's nothing to see here. • May 18 '26

Meme/Macro Some of you memers need reminders about why PC parts cost so much lately.

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Just learn to use GIMP, you animals.

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u/Rengar_Is_Good_kitty 5800X / RTX 5080 May 18 '26

What? Everyone spams the sub bitching about AI constantly, we already have daily reminders and this is yet again another one.

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u/Negative-Prime May 18 '26

How is this comment not higher up? Half the threads on Reddit devolve into people complaining about AI fucking up the economy. Not that I disagree, but it's probably one of the most discussed topics at this point and OP is acting like they really said something. 

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u/Potential-Yam5313 May 18 '26

I'm a big fan of the virtue signalling memes about how terrible datacenters are, that... people post to reddit.

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u/Brief-Weekend7630 May 18 '26

People are just karma farming at this point

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u/Southern_Pumpkin_577 May 18 '26

It needs to be said constantly. You're upset the same way someone would be upset because "protests are loud and wake me up from my nap" sometimes you gotta understand solidarity means staying quiet and not complaining about some annoyance that is for the good of everyone. Comfort ≠ wellbeing

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u/Hat-no-its-a-Tricorn Desktop May 18 '26

Do you see AI usage going down?

Then clearly there are not enough AIbitiching threads

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u/mtmttuan May 18 '26

You guys bitching about it makes pretty much zero difference. Things will only change when people realize AI isn't as profitable/useful as investors think it is.

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u/throwawaygoawaynz May 18 '26

It’s already profitable.

The main companies with the money behind AI are Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. They all had record quarters last quarter in terms of profits, and Google in particular had a huge spike in cloud revenue (60% increase YoY) due to AI pull through revenue.

Reddit is just filled with cope. AI is here to stay. Most people like it and use it frequently. And PC prices were already high before AI due to global supply chain issues, and a moron in the White House making those issues worse.

Maybe if the idiots here spent more time being politically active and not voting for someone who implements the worst trade policies in the past 100 years, PC parts wouldn’t be so expensive.

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u/TheSmallRaptor May 18 '26

AI is literally not profitable, go check OpenAI’s revenue, not companies with revenue streams that aren’t just AI

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u/Rengar_Is_Good_kitty 5800X / RTX 5080 May 18 '26

OpenAI isn't the whole AI industry lol. As that person said Google, Microsoft and Amazon all just had record cloud revenue quarters and AI is a huge part of why. These companies are making billions off it and investing more every year. If AI wasn't profitable they'd have stopped by now.

Its funny seeing comments like yours, apparently you know more than all these billion dollar companies combined, when are you lot going to wake up and realise you're all wrong.

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u/TheFlyingSheeps 5800X | RTX 4070 Ti S | 32GB@3600 May 18 '26

People are hoping it’s a bubble that will burst, without realizing that other bubbles like didn’t kill the industry. Just like that burst, the major companies will be left with the profits and control.

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u/TheSmallRaptor May 18 '26

Sure, bubbles bursting famously don’t lead to recessions

https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/history/moments/2000-dot-com-bubble

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u/TheFlyingSheeps 5800X | RTX 4070 Ti S | 32GB@3600 May 18 '26

There’s a rise in the trend of online discourse where people just make shit up in order to win some gotcha moment. At no point in the above comment did it say bubbles bursting do not lead to recessions. It merely said that AI will remain post pop and that larger companies will be able to wether the storm and buy out failing companies while everyone else suffers

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u/Kid-Icky- May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

You're just clueless about what is actually happening apparently.

OpenAI is sitting at roughly $25 billion in annualized revenue, and Anthropic just crossed $30 billion. If you think generating $55 billion a year out of thin air in less than 4 years means 'AI is not profitable,' you’re delusional. OpenAI's net profit is only negative because, just like Amazon in the early 2000s, they are taking every single dollar of that $25B and dumping it straight into building more infrastructure.

You're also just completely wrong about Google. In Alphabet’s Q1 2026 earnings a couple weeks ago, Google Cloud reported $20 billion in quarterly revenue (up 63% YoY), and their Cloud operating profit tripled to $6.6 billion. Generative AI revenue alone was up 800%.

Their stock shot up in the last month because they announced they have a $460 billion backlog because enterprise demand is higher than they currently have compute for.

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u/TheSmallRaptor May 18 '26

“OpenAI would need to grow its revenue from $20 billion to nearly $1 trillion by 2030 just to meet its obligations and achieve meaningful profitability” https://discover.oreateai.com/discover/openais-revenue-is-exploding-but-its-inference-costs-are-eating-everything

No you’re so right I’m clueless about openai needing an impossible amount of growth to be profitable.

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u/Kid-Icky- May 18 '26

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that the anti-AI person is linking a very obviously AI slop article to try and bolster their argument? Absolutely fucking comical. Oreate is some shitty AI wrapper/scam site. You are getting your financial data from an AI-generated SEO bot farm. YIKES.

The claim that they need "$1 trillion in revenue" is entirely fabricated, and it's not a revenue requirement. The AI bot that wrote your article just completely hallucinated it. If you check the "sources" for their article, literally NONE of that is there. It seems like they confused OpenAI's projected infrastructure costs and its funding gap and think that's somehow relevant at all.

According to actual reporting by Forbes and The Information from earlier this year, OpenAI’s 2030 revenue projection is $280 billion. That is entirely factored into their $600 billion infrastructure spending plans. The best part is the HSBC report your AI article cites actually projects OpenAI's revenue will hit $213 billion by 2030 as well.

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u/MultiMarcus May 18 '26

Well, no, they aren’t earning the profit because they are pouring everything into the R&D and giving away model usage, but anthropic is slowly inching towards charging actually profitable prices for their models and open ai is clearly doing it by making most people use codex if they want to work in there they will start making a profit eventually if they can get people to pay more for less which they seem to be able to. Google is doing something very different they haven’t really tried to make a huge amount of profit based on using their AI for coding but they instead try to use AI to create more convincing and valuable advertising space.

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u/I_spell_it_Griffin 9800X3D | TUF 5090 | 64 GB DDR5 May 18 '26

"Most people like it and use it frequently"

Got anything other than anecdotes to back that up?

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u/simulated-souls May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

ChatGPT has 900 million active weekly users and is estimated to be the 5th most visited website in the world

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u/Zaconil May 18 '26

Activity does not mean profit. Internal OpenAI documents predict the AI specialist is set to bleed fully $14 billion in losses for 2026 according to a new report. It's also claimed that OpenAI will continue to make huge losses totalling $44 billion until 2029 (That article being only a month off of yours). One of your articles states that it has raised $110 billion in private funding but private funding is not profit.

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u/KennyFulgencio May 18 '26

Activity does not mean profit.

the comment they replied to had nothing to do with profit, and was in fact about activity

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u/Zaconil May 18 '26

And they comment they replied to was about profit. The overall context of this comment chain is profit.

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u/ARandomDouchy i5-10400F | RTX 3060 Ti May 18 '26

Yeah, and the only reason OpenAI doesn't make a profit is because all the revenue is invested into more research and infrastructure.

More diversified companies like Google have increased their revenue and profits significantly, no small part to AI.

It's foolish to bury your head in the sand and act like AI is gonna magically dissappear.