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Maybe they charge a price that covers the cost of the service + a little profit.

• milkshakes 8mo ago
  this is exactly what they do, if you pay for your account, you don't see ads
  • manuelmoreale 8mo ago
    That doesn't scale in the world of capitalism. Because you need to increase revenues year after year and there are only so many people willing to pay. So you either keep increasing the price (and that has a limit) or you find other ways to monetize and the current meta seems to be pay + ads.
  • mossTechnician 8mo ago
    As of November 2025, no ChatGPT tier is profitable, not even the $200 a month one: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-loses-cool-revenue https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-lose...
• rchaud 8mo ago
  That's what a business would do if they were getting a loan from the bank instead of ravenous VCs that will pay their legal fees and settlements when theyget busted for training their models on copyrighted content, as long as they IPO within a reasonable timeframe.