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A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] 34 points 4 months ago (6 children)

This is their strategy, they want people to use it, get hooked, replace parts of their day-to-day life with it, make it to difficult to "just go back", then hit them with the actual bill.

They won't go bankrupt unless their backers walk, and their backers are still quite confident in this strategy.... because it's working.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    But no one is going to be able to afford a $14,000 subscription for slop.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    No, but if you get that number in everyones heads, there is much less resistance to, say a 100 EUR a month increase.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, but what good is that if 100 USD more is still losing tons of money.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "A $200 ChatGPT Pro 20x subscription could cost as much as $14,000 in API pricing if fully utilized."

    What is being said is that in a month time you can burn through $14,000 worth of tokens. It does not show that that comsumption would cost ChatGPT the full $14,000.

    So what they are doing here is planting the idea that a $200 subscription is actually worth $14,000. Which makes if very easy for them to make people switch to tokens or just increase the price of your subscription without losing too many customers.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago

    It is generally thought that official token price is breaking even, at best. Maybe it is not even doing that. The worth of the AI usage has nothing to do with those costs and is likely much lower. So far there is very little done on understanding actual value of AI use though.

    I am not saying you are wrong, just that the above statement can be correct at the same time.

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