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lloesche t1_j29b5sv wrote

Idk, they could take it out of research/beta mode, switch to a $30/month subscription, citing the enormous cost associated with providing the service, and nobody would bat an eye.

That is until Google comes out with their own, provided free of charge, injected with what Google does best, ads.

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Economy_Variation365 t1_j29bx0h wrote

Agreed. Just the fact that ChatGPT is so helpful with some school assignments means that most high school and college students would be eager to plunk down money for a monthly subscription.

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GuyWithLag t1_j2atfmc wrote

Fuck it, I'm an IT pro and the way that ChatGPT can generate corporate boilerplate already saves me hours per month; I'd be willing to pay for a subscription just for that, and I assume I'll find more uses as it improves.

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Kaarssteun OP t1_j29bhnn wrote

I do think people would bat an eye if they started charging money - to the layperson, this feels like google, and google has been free forever.

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SoylentRox t1_j2cla5j wrote

Imagine if the next best search engine was like an early version of bing and NOTHING else existed.

And nobody was remotely close to releasing anything better. Would you pay for it then?

If OpenAI starts charging for chatGPT, whatcha gonna do? Keep writing shit by hand?

The computional requirements are so expensive that realistically this is going to be a paid service maybe forever.

I say forever because compute will get much cheaper over time, but the best models will use even more compute and be much smarter. All the elite people will be using top end models, plebs using free models won't have the same resources.

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justowen4 t1_j2b0vpm wrote

Ah yes good point, Google ad team is salivating

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sharkymcstevenson2 t1_j2cllos wrote

I think OpenAI sees themselves as an operating system rather than a direct-to-consumer business - it seem they are encouraring companies/startups to build services on top of OpenAI tech. I dont think they will compete directly with that ecosystem they are trying to build by offering their own service like that, since building an ecosystem is 100x more valuable over time

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Equivalent-Ice-7274 t1_j29o5go wrote

Agreed - Google could add hyperlinks throughout the response text, as well as banner ads above and below, and perhaps even video commercials before you get to see the ai’s response. Then they could charge a subscription per employee for companies that want to buy, just like they do with Google Workspace. Google will make mountains of money off of this.

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GuyWithLag t1_j2atjfy wrote

>commercials before you get to see the ai’s response

They're not that amateurish.

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