This post is making a point - generative AI is relatively cheap - that might seem so obvious it doesn't need making. I'm mostly writing it because I've repeatedly had the same discussion in the past six months where people claim the opposite. Not only is the misconception still around, but it's not even getting less frequent. This is mainly written to have a document I can point people at, the next time it repeats. It seems to be a common, if not a majority, belief that Large Language Models (in...