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by tempfile 2 hours ago
What do you think the real price is? Subscriptions are heavily subsidised, I don't know anyone who would deny that.
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The general model for subscriptions is that power users are subsidized by subscriptions of casual users, like a gym membership or whatever.

This is a little dicier in post-agent AI, because it's easier for casual users to automate power-user consumption, but the providers have done decently in discouraging that.