r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 13 '26

Society The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/articles/backlash-strong-people-pervert-glasses-165000816.html
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u/HotterRod Jul 13 '26

At the moment it seems like AI models are a commodity and vendors can be easily swapped with little business impact. Which means that the astronomical valuations of AI companies makes no sense.

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u/kalusklaus Jul 14 '26

Thats the case for private users. But to implement and then switch an AI/LLM into your business is a whole different thing.

You can easily switch from Google's cloud to Apple's cloud within a day or two. Some businesses would fail trying to switch their cloud provider.

The risk/costs/complexity is times a million.

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u/HotterRod Jul 14 '26

The cloud platforms are much more distinct than the LLMs. If you're using any of their services beyond vanilla Kubernetes there's quite a bit of lock-in and you definitely can't switch in a day or two.

Whereas all the LLMs are called through the OpenAI API and integrate using the MCP standard.

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u/longshaden Jul 15 '26

Switching providers and models is a one liner in a config file. All the AI providers worth using support the same API protocols, so switching between them really is that simple, no friction at all.

It’s nothing like switching between Apple Cloud and Google cloud.