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At some point AI companies are going to have to charge real money to make a profit from their services. What do you think that amount would be and why? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

This is something I keep asking and can’t get a good answer for. You see some of the ads as “your $20 per month gets you $300 in tokens!” But that’s not sustainable unless it’s being subsidized by low use people.

But then for that matter, what does the value of a token mean? Is it the amount of money you would save as compared to having a human work? That doesn’t help the company providing the service.

Or maybe is supposed to cover the price of the compute to execute the query. That would be ideal, but I don’t think that value is correct.

I really think it’s “the first hit is free” approach and soon they’re going to start jacking prices up. I believe all of them are operating as loss leaders, just to try to get market share and even this few initial price increases are showing how much they’re bleeding money.