[bigtex]

They will remain but when they have to charge enough profit to cover the cost of generating the responses, how many people will actually pay for it? Last time I saw 97% of OpenAI usage was free customers. No way to force the 3% to pay for their usage.

[paulcole]

I mean I pay for several already.

If I had to, I guess I'd pay $100/month for ChatGPT.

But I also don't see how these things don't keep getting cheaper. What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time?

[ironmagma]

> What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time?

Cloud. And AI is not very different from the fundamentals of Cloud; there's vendor lock-in, meaning the vendors can raise prices at will, representing a liability to whoever tries to depend on them.

[paulcole]

> Cloud

There’s short-term increases sure but there’s no doubt in my mind that $100 in cloud today gets you much more than $100 in cloud 10 years ago. And the $100 is worth less today!

[stcroixx]

Splintered streaming services cost more than a cable package used to.