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Do any of them like it enough to pay for it? The figures say no.
I use it daily but I won't subscribe. It's like news. Why pay when you can get it for free. (I do subscribe to news outlets, though, but like ai subscriptions, I know I'm in the minority).
There is a specialised ai tool that is useful at my work. It's got a free tier which does most of the functions and the next tier up is crazy expensive on a per user basis for the amount of time it saves. If there was a reasonable subscription, perhaps I'd subscribe but I assume that a reasonable subscription doesn't cover costs, so they'd rather a free user to pump their numbers than lose a subscriber. That yells me it will enshottify over time or they hope that the cost will drop. The problem is that if the cost to host drops a lot, people will self host instead. It's a rock and a hard place, without a sustainable business model.