Sam Altman is a proven liar and this is more of his bullshit. The for-pay version of the AI models are either exactly the same as the “free” ones or only a minor improvement over them. They’re attempting to do the stage of… ugh… disruption where they throw scads of investor cash at a service to offer it to end users for cheap or free so when they raise the prices to the point that it’ll turn a profit enough people are on the hook that they have no choice but to continue using the product.
I’ll have to take your word for that. I didn’t simply believe Altman, mind you (or pay that much attention to what he said in the first place, to be honest), but this is what I took away from a conversation with a friend who is a professor for IT security at a university here and who works a lot with AI in coding (and is also desperately trying to figure out what to do with this when it comes to teaching and training students).
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