[Simulacra]

"OpenAI reportedly discussed charging $20k/month on PhD-level research agents with investors."

I've been wondering about this, that there might be a day when certain models are sold at a much higher price, like luxury cars, and only people who are willing to pay a lot of money get them. Everyone else has to settle for a cheaper LLM.

[pluc]

Or ad-supported LLMs where you can't guarantee the answer isn't sponsored.

[Leynos]

Why doesn't the same caveat apply to a paid account?

I mean, you have to declare when content is an advert, and if you are asserting that the owners of the chatbot are going to just ignore that requirement, won't they just do the same thing for paid accounts?

[pluc]

I would assume they would until the profit of subscriptions surpasses the profit of anything else they can monetize. Why would they leave money on the table?

[Leynos]

So "ad-supported" is redundant in your comment since you believe it applies to the paid accounts too?