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Re: ChatGPT Pro

#23

I do wonder what effect this will have on furthering the divide between the "rich West" and the rest of the world. If everyone in the West has powerful AI and Agents to automate everything. Simply because we can afford it, but the rest of the world doesn't have access to it. What will that mean for everyone left behind?

That supposes gen AI meaningfully increases productivity. Perhaps this is one way we find out.

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#25
post #15

I am using more Claude.ai these days, but the limitations for paying accounts do apply to ChatGPT as well. I find it a terrible business practice to be completely opaque and vague about limits. Even worse, the limits seem to be dynamic and change all the time. I understand that there is a lot of usage happening, but most likely it means that the $20 per month is too cheap anyway, if an average user like myself can so…

It’s insane to me that they don’t have a “pay $10 to have this temporary limit lifted” micro transaction model. They are leaving money on the table.

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#26

The 2025 upgrade for AI garbage is AI garbage +SaaS.

I’m betting against this.

From what I’ve seen, the usefulness of my AIs are proportional to the data I give them access to. The more data, (like health data, location data, bank data, calendar data, emails, social media feeds, browsing history, screen recordings, etc) - the more I can rely on them for.

On the enterprise side, businesses are interested in exploring AI for their huge data sets - but very hesitant to dump all their company IP across all their current systems into a single SaaS that, btw, is also providing AI services to their competitors.

Consumers are also getting uncomfortable with the current level of sharing personal data with SaaS vendors, becoming more aware of the risks of companies like Google and Facebook.

I just don’t see the winner-takes-all market happening for an AI powered 1984 telescreen in 2025.

The vibes I’m picking up from most everybody are:

1) Hardware and AI costs are going to shrink exponentially YoY

2) People do not want to dump their entire life and business into a single SaaS

All signs are pointing to local compute and on-prem seeing a resurgence.

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#28

If the alternative is ChatGPT with native advertising built it... I'll take the subscription.

That would be one way to destroy all trust in the model: is the response authentic (in the context of an LLM guessing), or has it been manipulated by business clients to sanitise or suppress output relating to their concern?

You know? Nestle throws a bit of cash towards OpenAPI and all of a sudden the LLM is unable to discuss the controversies they've been involved in. Just pretends they never happened or spins the response in a way to make it positive.

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#30
The price feels outrageous, but I think the unsaid truth of this is that they think o1 is good enough to replace employees. For example, if it's really as good at coding as they say, I could see this being a point where some people decide that a team of 5 devs with o1 pro can do the work of 6 or 7 devs without o1 pro.
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