alt Hacker News> Do you think they won't immediately figure out how to use a VPN to move to the "better" models
I think they don't even know the term "model" (in AI context), let alone which one's the best. They only know ChatGPT.
I do think it's possible that stories spread like "the new cool ChatGPT update is US-only: Here's how to access it in the EU".
However I don't think many will make use of that.
Anecdotally, most people around me (even CS colleagues) only use the standard model, ChatGPT 4o, and don't even take a look at the other options.
Additionally, AI companies could quickly get in trouble if they accept payments from EU credit cards.
>I think they don't even know the term "model" (in AI context), let alone which one's the best. They only know ChatGPT.
They don't know how torrents work either, but they always find a way to pirate movies to avoid Netflix's shitty policies. Necessity is the mother of invention.
>However I don't think many will make use of that.
You underestimate the drive kids/young adults have trying to maximize their grades/output while doing the bare minimum to have more time for themselves.
>Additionally, AI companies could quickly get in trouble if they accept payments from EU credit cards.
Well, if the EU keep this up, that might not be an issue long term in the future, when without top of the line AI and choked by regulations and with the costs of caring for an ageing demographics sucking up all the economic output, the EU economy falls further and further into irrelevancy.