It's over for him.
>>107898895why 8 dollars?why not 2 dollar? that way imagine a billion people subscribing, isnt that more profitable on the long run?
>>107898895Who?
>>107898895how about you skip your McDonalds once a month, and you fucking pay for a service if you find it useful?
>>107898895How is this not a tacit admission that the thing this whole trend is supposedly leading to is not achievable in the near term, and that the trillions being poured in are unjustified?
>>107898987Because the first person to flinch destroys the world economy.
>>107898902Fees on processing small transactions like that kills it.
>>107899005If that would be the case, microtransactions wouldn't be a thing.
>>107898902No
>>107898895Lol, no, still not gonna pay him. There are still a lot of free tiers from other companies. And even if all of them stop supporting free tiers, I would probably not choose Scam Altman (because fuck him due to current ram and ssd prices)
>>107899005Card processing fees are only prohibitive below $1 USD
>>107898902There's a significant hurdle in paying at all.You might have 1 billion customers using your service for $0 but the moment they need to go through the process of paying the amount of people using the service drops massively. It's an inconvenience, it costs a bit of money and thus it feels like a waste, and it might just be easier to use an alternative.Even charging just $0.01 would more than half the customer base. That's why ad financed sites and services are so popular. For the sites it would be economically better if their users would just pay 5ct a month directly, and the users would have a better experience without the ads that's surely worth 5 measily cents, but the users can't be bothered to pay at all so the sites focus on a small subsection to extract $10+ and leave the rest to advertisers who are more than happy to pay miniscule amounts per visit/impression.In OpenAIs case, why wouldn't most of their customers just switch to using Gemini if that doesn't involve ads for now? The LLMs aren't too different in terms of capabilities to set them truly apart, so it's just a price war currently and whomever can subsidize their offering longer will win. And since OpenAI can't compete with Alphabet's finances it's already decided that they lose - unless big daddy Microsoft just fully takes over and throws in enough mula to compete...
>>107898987because incels still need robo wifes
>>107899021Most micro transactions are still in the $3-5 range.
>>107899069That 1$ changes everything?
>>107898947Shalom
>>107898895it's not over it's not over it's not over it's not over it's not overIT'S NOT FUCKING OVER!!!!!!!!!AI IS HERE TO STAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>107899082Yes. Because the transaction fee doesn't meaningfully increase.
>>107898947Well, therin lies the problem - right, anon?ChatGPT isn't actually useful. It's a novelty.
>>107899212>ChatGPT isn't actually useful. >It's a novelty.IT IS USEFUL!!! IT IS NOT A NOVELTY!!!!!!!AI IS NOT GOING AWAY GOD FUCKING DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!
>>107899176>>107899221NNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>107899040>Even charging just $0.01 would more than half the customer base.I'm sure it'd reduce the customer base far more than that.There are a very small number of people attempting to use AI in professions that are actually spending money on it, everyone else is just hopping around free services. The assumption is that all these people will eventually start paying because it'll become such a vital part of their lives, but the reality is that nobody wants to pay for this shit.
>>107899317It's just another IoT for home appliances.
>>107898895I just realized I should spam the everliving fuck out of google to get all the answers I need before the bubble pops and they start charging me for asking it questions. Shit
>>107899212then, what is the problem in adding ads, if you don't use it?
>>107899347Google has long included advertising in their results to pay for it.
