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Ask HN: Are you going to shell out $42 for ChatGPT pro? Is it worth it?

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Ask HN: Are you going to shell out $42 for ChatGPT pro? Is it worth it?

#1
From what I have read, it doesn't provide a whole lot of features other than giving you a priority in the queue, and storing your chat history, etc.

So would you guys rather wait a little longer for the prompt to answer or shell out the $42?

Personally, I might pay if they limit the number of responses per month, or they put up a credit system like Dall-E.

Re: Ask HN: Are you going to shell out $42 for ChatGPT pro? Is it worth it?

#4
I wish they would make the Pro version less filtered and less apologetic about only being a language model.

Even it's a bit annoying, I do understand them trying to limit what the free, public facing model will answer but I'd say it'd be a pretty fair expectation to get more leeway for the Pro version.

Re: Ask HN: Are you going to shell out $42 for ChatGPT pro? Is it worth it?

#6

This too shall pass. This is no different than the time when everyone was crazed about having an Alexa at home because "oh i am too busy to write down my grocery list"

I never used Alexa for anything because it was faster to just use my phone directly. But ChatGPT has been genuinely helpful. Not sure about $42 helpful, but much more than Alexa.

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#7
post #4

I wish they would make the Pro version less filtered and less apologetic about only being a language model. Even it's a bit annoying, I do understand them trying to limit what the free, public facing model will answer but I'd say it'd be a pretty fair expectation to get more leeway for the Pro version.

Yeah, my first thought about Pro was that even if I pay $42 per month, the results will still be nerfed, and perhaps increasingly so over time.

It's possible to view almost every fact or opinion as somehow controversial, and I think they're misguided in trying to prevent things that may generate minor controversies.

In fact, it's interesting to see how a LLM might be biased after taking in massive amounts of training data.

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#8
The thing is this is something which would only benefit application where your customers are using the API through your service somehow because it would be very difficult to control direct customer usage without any supervision of results for let's say a FAQ bot without strong guarantee of stupidity leakage

Re: Ask HN: Are you going to shell out $42 for ChatGPT pro? Is it worth it?

#9
post #4

I wish they would make the Pro version less filtered and less apologetic about only being a language model. Even it's a bit annoying, I do understand them trying to limit what the free, public facing model will answer but I'd say it'd be a pretty fair expectation to get more leeway for the Pro version.

It’s laughable when you see it claim it can’t do something then with some rewording you trick it into doing just the thing you asked.

If I was at OpenAI I’d be looking at this sort of ideology as what’s gonna be our downfall like it was with Dall-E 2 once a democratized model is released by someone else.

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