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squeaky-clean05/14/20252 repliesview on HN

So how exactly does that work for the $25/mo flat fee that I pay OpenAI for chatgpt. They want me to keep getting the wrong output and burning money on their backend without any additional payment from me?


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dwringer05/14/2025

Something of an aside, but this is sort of equivalent to asking "how does that work for the $50 dollars the casino gave me to gamble with for free"? I once made 50 dollars exactly in that way by taking the casino's free tokens and putting them all on black in a single roulette spin. People like that are not the ones companies like that make money off of.

kimixa05/14/2025

For the amount of money OpenAI burns that $25/mo is functionally the same as zero - they're still in the "first one is free" phase.

Though you could say the same thing about pretty much any VC funded sector in the "Growth" phase. And I probably will.

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