Would you be willing to pay for AI and if yes how much?

[noname223]

The business model does not seem to add up thus far. I think AI is pretty helpful in certain cases. I think though it is good to have access to different models. It helps against the echo chamber effect. Can make it worse but it depends on the usage I think. The training data is similar, so are the answers but there are nuances. Different models have different strengths and weaknesses.

I don't have much money. And I am quite stingy. I would maybe pay 20 euros for premium access if this was the only way to get access. I think they want to make people addicted. The payment comes later. I am a little bit more functional with the help of AI. I think with ads I would be fine. Even though, I think the ads can be adapted extremely well to chatbots and can be extremely persuasive. To a point where it is really unethical.

I think the tech companies have currently downs. My friends hope that the bubble will burst. The new anthropic model seems to cannabalize the tech sector. And the extreme investments raise doubts. Alphabet doubles the investments. Last year they spent 90 billion dollars on AI. This year they want to spend 185 billion dollars. The advantage is Alphabet can finance itself with the google search/ad revenue. Where companies like openAI go into debts. And are dependent on investors.

 

[idontknowwhatiam]

No. Not one penny. I too hope the AI bubble will burst and soon....... And I work for a medical AI software company

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

0.00$

 

[Bootleg Astolfo]

NO, FUCK THOSE CLANKER PIECES OF SHIT

 

[SleeplessAndSad]

I haven't paid until yet and i don't plan to.

However i got to use the pro features of some for free as i am a student and the benefits for programming are immens. I don't have to read through pages of docs to find one thing. I can just ask and get the answer right away. Or let it implement simple stuff.

Not everything is positive though. I think it makes people dumber. It's easy to believe and not question AI answers.

 

[GlassMoon]

I'm on the ChatGPT pro plan and I use it quite often. I'd like to use the API instead to use an alternative interface but that appears to be much more expensive. Especially since I have very long conversations, so even the input token count would be very expensive. I think the web based plans are very much too cheap compared to the real costs, hence they're loosing so much money.

 

[sshine]

No. I don't use online AI tools because of privacy issues.

If your PC is powerful enough, you can run simple AI models on your own machine.

But honestly, regular people won't ever have to pay for AI. Look at Google, YouTube, Facebook. They're free because of ads. Your data is worth more than the cost of AI. Since social media started, AI has been the easiest way to get people to share deeply personal stuff. Right now, millions are telling AI things they'd never say to anyone else. AI isn't going anywhere.

 

[BradGuy123]

My biggest fear is that AI is going to replace a lot of jobs including mine. If a whole lot of jobs are displaced there won't be enough jobs to replace them. You will see an increase in things like homelessness and crime. You will see more people trying to CTB. That's honestly why I joined - to do research on how to CTB if I can no longer be employed due to AI. Believe me, all executives care about is their stock price and the amount of money in their bonuses. If 75% of white collar jobs go away and the effect on lower and middle class people is catastrophic, they won't give a rat's ass. I hate corporate America.