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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by wood_spirit on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:18PM (#44851967)
AI pricing is stuck on subscription rather than metering which means that it’s a race to the bottom. It’s not obvious how AI providers can change that as the service they offer is just a game to users who can, even reluctantly, switch off.
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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by awesome_dude on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:41PM (#44852087)
I THINK that they are going to have to change pretty soon, I would guess that they would either drop their free tier offerings OR find another way to pay for things (advertising maybe?)

I'm not enough of a Business Major to know how they could monetise things, but I am enough of a realist to think that they can't stay like this forever

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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by disgruntledphd2 on Monday August 11, 2025 @09:48AM (#44864030)
> I THINK that they are going to have to change pretty soon, I would guess that they would either drop their free tier offerings OR find another way to pay for things (advertising maybe?)

I would be incredibly surprised if OpenAI didn't go for advertising, given that they hired Fidji Simo (who PM'd feed ads at Facebook, and introduced ads to Instacart).

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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by wood_spirit on Monday August 11, 2025 @12:09PM (#44865879)
The OpenAI pitch deck for product placement was leaked over a year ago now
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