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Ask HN: Is there any value in paying for ChatGPT?
Before I started paying the $20/month fee, I was able to use ChatGPT but experienced a lot of timeouts, failures and login issues. At first the paid service mostly solved these issues. Now, I seem to experience all of the same problems despite paying. Is there any point in paying for the service at this point?
I know it provides access to ChatGPT4 but so far I generally don't bother with it because it only seems incrementally better while being much slower.
- Walter1 4y agoIf you are writing an article, being able to choose a style is very important. I believe that is not available on the free version (at least not in the pulldown. I write real estate ads with it. Without the "persuasive" style it is not nearly as good. I have rarely had to wait to get on the paid version.
- osigurdson 4y agoI've never seen the option to use a style using the UI. When using the API directly, it is possible to specify system messages that influence the overall behaviour.
- Quarrel 4y agoIsn't this just a function of prompting? ie you can give it the style and voice you want the reply in before asking it to do something.
- Quarrel 4y agoIf this is where you're at (both in terms of issues your seeing and not seeing the value in GPT4 like lots of us), then I think you probably should stick to Bing AI Chat for a while? The landscape is changing super fast, so things will be different in a few months, but for most people MS offer a decent service. https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bing+AI&showconv=1 https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bing+AI&showconv=1 It does come with an Edge requirement and a MS account requirement (and I've seen reports that you can fudge the Edge requirement with the correct User Agent, but I haven't tried it).
- yuppie_scum 4y agoMuch cheaper to sign up for an API key then use it with MacGPT or some other client. Fraction of a cent per question.
- taubek 4y agoYes, there is. Almost no downtime compared to free version. At least to me. And ChatGPT 4 is available.