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by hbn 22 days ago
Feels weird to be complaining about this stuff when all of these AI companies are still haemorrhaging money to offer these services.

You can say it's inconvenient but it's hard to argue they're being greedy when they do these things to merely lose a little bit less money on every subscription they sell.

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Harder to make a spicy article if you can't argue the companies are greedy.
> You can say it's inconvenient but it's hard to argue they're being greedy when they do these things to merely lose a little bit less money on every subscription they sell.

TFA is probably overly inflammatory but it's worth pointing out how this loss leader cycle works.

These companies are not your friends, they're burning VC money to subsidize services before the eventual rug pull, enshittification is coming.