I dont give them any valuable information about me and I never pay. I also only use it in the browser and not even that often
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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What about using it without a subscription though ? I'm unsure whether this is good or bad for them, it loses them money but it also makes their user numbers look good so idk
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if you really want to hurt them use a free account and keep on asking to make you innane pictures and stuff. I mean it will waste energy though but it will cost them money.
I just use Chinese AI atp. Deepseek and Kimi.
Glm also?
Nah I'm gonna use my free account to prompt a bunch if inane shit to drive up operating costs while poisoning their training data