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I absolutely think that OpenAI or Anthropic should provide such integration. It’s very similar to how Apple Pay centralises your subscriptions and makes payment

I absolutely think that OpenAI or Anthropic should provide such integration. It’s very similar to how Apple Pay centralises your subscriptions and makes payments secure and simple. Would be nice if AI labs had an equivalent portal where each authorized app gets its own key and I can cancel any time and control my spending. Finally that might enable some kind of monetisation if OpenAI or Anthropic give developers a cut, e.g. 10% mark-up that goes to the authorized app.

vineyardmike 2y ago
> Finally that might enable some kind of monetisation if OpenAI or Anthropic give developers a cut, e.g. 10% mark-up that goes to the authorized app. I was totally against you until this, but it’s an interesting idea. Its still early, but seems like OpenAI hasn’t succeeded any more to be broad consumer product past the core Chat experience. Building an AI OAuth platform would be an interesting way to be sticky and avoid being a commodity. But it’d give developers more leverage vs their custom-GPT product, and it’d shift charging per-use for an API to “unlimited” per month for a single subscription fee. Generally, a product shouldn’t tie themselves to an API provider (eg OpenAI) when it could’ve been an implementation detail. If you hide the actual API from users, you can swap it for cheaper or better ones as the market evolves. If you give up the account access to a providers OAuth, and you give up control over that implementation, you risk being really stuck to a market loser and no direct relationship with users. Getting paid for it though…. That would be an interesting twist. But I’m not sure it’d make sense as anything but a bulk discount. The problem is that it doesn’t make sense to pay a developer to use your paid product, unless you get a relationship with the end users like Google Search defaults in browsers. But again, it doesn’t make sense to give OpenAI that relationship if you don’t have to.

vineyardmike 2y ago

> Finally that might enable some kind of monetisation if OpenAI or Anthropic give developers a cut, e.g. 10% mark-up that goes to the authorized app. I was totally against you until this, but it’s an interesting idea. Its still early, but seems like OpenAI hasn’t succeeded any more to be broad consumer product past the core Chat experience. Building an AI OAuth platform would be an interesting way to be sticky and avoid being a commodity. But it’d give developers more leverage vs their custom-GPT product, and it’d shift charging per-use for an API to “unlimited” per month for a single subscription fee. Generally, a product shouldn’t tie themselves to an API provider (eg OpenAI) when it could’ve been an implementation detail. If you hide the actual API from users, you can swap it for cheaper or better ones as the market evolves. If you give up the account access to a providers OAuth, and you give up control over that implementation, you risk being really stuck to a market loser and no direct relationship with users. Getting paid for it though…. That would be an interesting twist. But I’m not sure it’d make sense as anything but a bulk discount. The problem is that it doesn’t make sense to pay a developer to use your paid product, unless you get a relationship with the end users like Google Search defaults in browsers. But again, it doesn’t make sense to give OpenAI that relationship if you don’t have to.