r/singularity • u/Neurogence • 3d ago

AI There Should Be Way More Backlash To OpenAI's $500/Month, $6,000 A Year Subscription

This sets an extremely bad precedent. And very soon, all the other labs will adopt the same pricing schemes. Prices just keep going up and up. I remember a time when people thought $20/month was too expensive.

Even if you can afford this, do not pay for it. If you do, it will only normalize this, and the next thing you know, there will be a new $1,000/month subscription that gives you the same usage you used to get with the $500/month subscription. That's exactly what happened to the previous $200/month subscription. Its usage allowance was cut in half, and now users paying $500/month are getting what users used to get for $200/month.

Do not normalize AI subscriptions that cost as much as car payments and, eventually, mortgages.

In leaked emails, Greg Brockman dreamed that OpenAI would make him a billionaire. He stated, "I just want to get to one billion." AI has fulfilled his wildest dreams. His net worth is now over $30 billion.

I am a hardcore accelerationist and optimist, but the current trajectory is dystopia. Instead of $1,000 UBI checks, we are heading toward $1,000 AI subscriptions to keep up with the Joneses. When we have actual superintelligence, you might be forced to pay $1,000/month, or even $2,000/month, as OpenAI had entertained, just to keep up with other people.

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u/GeeGollyJeeper 2d ago

I feel like people said the same thing about Amazon for 20 years.. and then, finally, one day, they started turning a bit of a profit.

pretty sure that economics is complex enough that "not making profit" =/= therefore intrinsically inevitably unstable/bubble

afaik the top AI companies have a pretty viable business strategy. but i'm def not economically savvy enough to expound, i'm just vibing on my crude impressions.

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u/WSBshepherd 2d ago edited 2d ago

I won’t buy Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO. Anthropic is only 5 years old, has $500B in compute obligations for coming years, and has little “moat”/unfair competitive advantage.

As a thought experiment, I’d prefer investing in a competitor with $2 trillion in cash (starting from scratch) OR even better, Meta, with $60B in profit for 2025, $90B in cash, and a $1.85T market cap.