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Calling ChatGPT a "chat bot" in 2025 isn't technically incorrect but it is like calling a male human assistant a "chat guy". It costs $200 because the chatty l

• 7bit 1y ago
  It costs $200 dollar because you need probably 50 cents to cover it's costs, and because people are happy to pay 199.50 for the value it provides. Whether that value is worth the money is a different discussion, that is rarely held with big tech offerings.
  • poisonborz 1y ago
    > probably 50 cents to cover it's costs Right now it costs absolutely more than the subscription price
• bugtodiffer 1y ago
  It's trained on or collective data, it should be owned collectively. Wasn't ChatGPT a non-profit once?
  • scarface_74 1y ago
    Sure the data is out there, if you have billions of dollars you can set up your own data center, gather the same data, hire the engineers and pay the networking inference costs and make it free to everyone. If it had stayed a non profit, would people have donated enough to keep it in business? Enough people aren’t willing to donate to keep a browser maker in business.