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by agentbc9000 51 days ago
this wont stop the pay per token system being forced onto its users - lets see how much you'll be prepared to pay? Powerusers paying $15/$40 per day?
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Turns out AI is expensive… who knew? Giving it away for free was a predatory trap to create dependency. Now that they’ve captured enough market share they can try to cover their costs. The interesting question will be if it’s even even possible for them to turn a profit without a cartel or massive government subsidies.
Where I work we have people who are well past $40/day of Claude usage.
Chinese models bro $2 per million tokens - yes i am playing with some of these models