Re:OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
by pembrook on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:39AM
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I don't like requiring phone numbers either, but saying OpenAI shouldn't do freemium model for hottest tech product of this century (AI) is a fundamental misunderstanding of how humans and the world works.
Also, if they don't do freemium they're getting way more valuable information about you than just a phone number.
Re:OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
by jimmydorry on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @11:55AM
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What part of this thread relates to freemium? Use of the API requires tokens that are paid for. General use of the AI via the web interface does not require a phone number.
Only requiring the phone number for API users feels needlessly invasive and is not explained by a vague "countering fraud and abuse" for a paid product...
- Parent talks about a paid product. If they wants to burn tokens, they are going to pay for it.
- Those phone requirements do not stop professional abusers, organized crime nor state sponsored groups. Case in point: twitter is overrun by bots, scammers and foreign info-ops swarms.
- Phone requirements might hinder non-professional abusers at best, but we are sidestepping the issue if those corporations deserve that much trust to compel regular users to sell themselves. Maybe the business model just sucks.