this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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I’ve found it semi useful and have been impressed by the increasing utility. I’d pay $2-5 a month for it probably. I like chatting with it and educational topics. business wise it’s good for marketing, redundant writing, discussing ideas and getting quick synopsis on thought projects.
I think if Facebook is a trillion dollar company from monopolizing and selling ads, than the LLMs create a similar value case. They can be used to create cheap botnets for “organic” advertising. Not sure what kind of moat that offers but damned if everyone doesn’t want AI chatbots running 24/7 propaganda campaigns rn.
Yeah, the issue is that the amount you'd be willing to pay for it ($5) is a fraction of a fraction of the cost it takes to provide the service to you. It is a completely non-viable business.
Of course, a lack of viability has never stopped anyone from profiting, our economy is really more of a pyramid scheme when it gets right down to it.
I did not realize that lol. I wonder what my actual GPT usage has cost over 3 years. I live in Maine and the median wage is around $20 an hour. So idk nothing is designed for my economy.
Sure but your 2-5 dollars a month is not covering your use of it. Hatfpt was not making money on their $200 plan.
I also find it moderately useful but there’s no way I’d pay for it. The problem is I rarely find general purpose ai useful, but only in a context. I like it for summarizing meetings, I like its input to code reviews, I like it as another approach to searching large content, I like it for programming language switching. But I’m not going to pay separately for all the places I find it useful