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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by iAMkenough on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:40PM (#45749378)
Citation for subscriptions as a profitable model? Revenue may be high, but actual profit is far into the negative at this point I thought.
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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by vjvjvjvjghv on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:25PM (#45752576)
Netflix seems alright.
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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by iAMkenough on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @05:23PM (#45753235)
Sorry, I thought we were talking about products like OpenAI.

Obviously subscriptions work for some products that have lower operational costs, but I don't believe that to be universally true for AI as a service.

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