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A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

assuming API pricing

API pricing is not what it costs openai to offer the inference.

API pricing is what they're currently selling their inference, with profit included in price.

"But if the user didn't get a subscription, he would have spent $14k in token" is a wrong assumption.

The user is wasting the tokens on useless tasks because they're free to him, but once he has to pay them, he wouldn't ask to generate 100 images of a toilet eating carrots anymore