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by FromTheFirstIn 2 days ago
This proposition boils down to a belief that there are 3 billion people who are interested in AI for free but aren’t currently paying $20, but who would pay $20 if that was the price. The global median income is around $12k, so this would mean that there’s roughly be a global budget of 0.5% of everyone’s annual income going to chatbots. If you’re off by half, the price doubles for each person. I think you’d make a lot of money betting against the existence of 3 billion ghost customers