Re:Microsoft in talks to acquire a 49% stake in ChatGPT owne...
by danielbln on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:44PM
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They only recently lowered API prices significantly: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6485334-september-2022-o...
Re:Microsoft in talks to acquire a 49% stake in ChatGPT owne...
by danShumway on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:13PM
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I mean, we'll see if that's still the case a year or two from now. Maybe I'm wrong and the models will stay very affordable. I could very well be wrong.
It's just not the trend that I usually see in tech, and I don't personally see a lot of differences between AI and other tech products that make me think it's going to be an exception to the general market direction that subscription services usually go.
I kind of disagree with this, I think ChatGPT is a superior system in terms of pure output. It strikes me as the sort of comparisons people make between Open Source voice recognition (which is great for a lot of stuff) vs the serverside systems (which may be more than you need, but are almost always going to produce better output). Opinion me.
> Available via API
The only way that an API gets monetized is through a subscription model or as a loss leader for other content (ads, etc...). Given that AI chat isn't a great fit for advertising (at least not without making it a lot less useful), I strongly suspect that the API model is going to get more expensive in the future.
Again, just something I suspect. Maybe it will get much cheaper to host, but the optimism people have about that is I think more of a hope than a solid expectation. There are much cheaper things to host than an AI system that don't end up being affordable to individuals and end up being primarily marketed towards businesses.