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I'm getting AI subscription fatigue[1]. How, as a consumer, am I supposed to justify paying $10+ /mo for different interfaces to the same AI backend? Some of t
by andrewmunsell 3y ago
I'm getting AI subscription fatigue[1].
How, as a consumer, am I supposed to justify paying $10+ /mo for different interfaces to the same AI backend? Some of this stuff is cool, but why would anyone pay for a Chat GPT shortcut directly within Arc?
Don't get me wrong, I understand these features cost Arc (or whoever) money and they can't exactly give it away for free, but why would I pay for this + ChatGPT Plus + Poe + every other app that has a small AI assistant? It's just not sustainable.
There's a few local apps that let me use an Open AI key. I'd much rather pay on demand (and directly to the source, or even better, use a local LLM) and then purchase an app one-time or have a lower recurring fee than to be paying some incremental amount for AI features that I have access to in a million different interfaces.
[1] Yes, this is free now, but unless Arc can extract some value out of you down the road, it's not cost viable for them to offer for users for free. The most user friendly way to do this would be a simple subscription.
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