There is an acquisition cost of researching and developing the LLM, but the running cost should not be classified as a wage, hence cost of labor is zero.
I wouldn’t be able to express the embedded irony if I didn’t use this oxymoron.
On the one hand, AI doesn’t classify as labor in a traditional sense, even though some aspire to replace labor with AI.
On the other hand, if it classified as labor under some new definition, it isn’t free when you consider the external costs of outsourcing basic brain activity, as an individual and as a society.
