sanman t1_j1bacsy wrote on December 23, 2022 at 12:58 AM

Reply to comment by IWantAGrapeInMyMouth in [D] When chatGPT stops being free: Run SOTA LLM in cloud by _underlines_

Well, remember when Youtube was totally free without any ads whatsoever? And of course we all wondered how they were going to continue offering their service for free. Then one day the ads crept in, and we knew.

I'm thinking OpenAI hasn't made this thing free just for generosity. They're using us as free beta-testers to shake down the product for them, so that they can iron out the kinks and bugs. Once that process has run its course, they'll just cut off our access and only allow paying customers to use it.

jrkirby t1_j1bnhkx wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:40 AM

Why do you think they'll make us pay, when they could instead the treasure trove of personal information to sell to advertisers and train the AI to subliminally (or explicitly) advertise to us?

sanman t1_j1bqgvb wrote on December 23, 2022 at 3:04 AM

I wonder if there'll be a new budding industry for SEO with GPT, just like there is for SEO with Google search? I'm not sure how that would work though, since it might be harder to integrate spam/ads into GPT responses.

KimmiG1 t1_j1bf7bb wrote on December 23, 2022 at 1:36 AM

I'm curious if they keep a free version that sneeks inn adds as natural conversations where it fits.

slashtom t1_j1bf92g wrote on December 23, 2022 at 1:37 AM

Well, they're also getting feedback and the model is only being improved by human interaction. I'd bet they still keep a free tier in order to get access to a broader pool and charge companies/people a subscription fee if they want unlimited access or something.

lucidrage t1_j1c5jxp wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:16 AM

Imagine if chatgpt was ad supported... You just invented a new business model!