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by omarfarooq 766 days ago
Isn't it at their cost if they're subsidizing it?
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Only in the short term. A monopoly is to the disadvantage of consumers, even if they initially benefited from the predatory pricing that allowed that monopoly to take hold.
You'd be right if they had any chance at getting a monopoly, but they don't - there are companies releasing open source models and communities improving on them.

So users get the short term and the long term benefit. Let OpenAI give us their money.